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The Joseph Needham Professorship of Chinese History, Science and Civilisation (李約瑟漢學教授席位) is the senior [citation needed] professorship of Chinese at the University of Cambridge. The chair is the successor to the Professorship of Chinese, founded in 1888 and the first of three successive Chinese professorships at Cambridge.
In 2008, the Chair of Chinese in the University of Cambridge, a post never awarded to Needham, was endowed in his honour as the Joseph Needham Professorship of Chinese History, Science and Civilisation. Since 2016, an annual Needham Memorial Lecture is held at Clare College.
Joseph Needham was an English biochemist, embryologist, and historian of science who wrote and edited the landmark history Science and Civilisation in China, a comprehensive study of Chinese scientific development. The son of a physician, Needham earned a doctoral degree in 1924 from the University.
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Joseph Needham Professor of Chinese History, Science, and Civilization: East Asian Studies
ProfessorshipFaculty Or DepartmentBenefactorDobson Professor of Materials Science and ...The Ann D Foundation [22]Professor of SustainabilitySchool of the Physical SciencesProfessor of Organisational Behaviour ...2023Andreas von Hirsch Professor of Penal ...Dr. Joseph Needham is a British biochemist, science historian and an eminent Chinese science historian who enjoys worldwide reputation as one of the great scholars of the 20th century. After graduating from Cambridge University in Britain in 1921, he started work as a biochemist under Professor Fredrick J. Hopkins who was awarded the Nobel ...
Joseph Needham, biochemist and historian, is ninety-two and has not yet completed the most remarkable academic career in twentieth-century England. His memorial will be Science and Civilization in China , which ranks with Toynbee’s A Study of History , Frazer’s The Golden Bough , and Havelock Ellis’s The Psychology of Sex among the ...
The “modern science” under which Needham organized his life as a politically engaged scientist and historian served him well as an analytical concept that made a particular version of scholarship possible—and attractive—in a world shattered by conflicts.
