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British biochemist, historian of science and sinologist
- Noel Joseph Terence Montgomery Needham CH FRS FBA (/ ˈniːdəm /; 9 December 1900 – 24 March 1995) was a British biochemist, historian of science and sinologist known for his scientific research and writing on the history of Chinese science and technology, initiating publication of the multivolume Science and Civilisation in China.
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Noel Joseph Terence Montgomery Needham CH FRS FBA [1] ( / ˈniːdəm /; 9 December 1900 – 24 March 1995) was a British biochemist, historian of science and sinologist known for his scientific research and writing on the history of Chinese science and technology, initiating publication of the multivolume Science and Civilisation in China.
- Noel Joseph Terence Montgomery Needham, 9 December 1900, London, England
Dr. Joseph Needham FRS, FBA (1900-1995) was one of the most outstanding intellectuals of the 20th century. As Reader in Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge, and Fellow (later Master) of Gonville and Caius College, in the inter-war years he was one of a group of left-wing, socially active scientists that included such figures as J.D. Bernal, C.H. Waddington and J.B.S. Haldane, among others.
Abstract These essays take a second look at Joseph Needham (1900–1995), the British biochemist whose colossal publishing project with Cambridge University Press, Science and Civilisation in China (1954–), attracts and frustrates historians of science, medicine, and technology in equal measure. Current reflections on the state of play in these fields address the themes, methods, and ...
- Florence Hsia, Dagmar Schäfer
- 2019
Aug 14, 2008 · In the exiled university and research communities in the Chinese far west, he met a brilliant young Chinese history student named Wang Ling and a twenty-three-year-old technical school science teacher, “H.T.” Huang, who became Needham’s main guide and assistant on his China travels.
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.
English biochemist who documented the history of science. Educated at Cambridge University, Needham specialized in embryology. He conducted research at the Cambridge Dunn Institute of Biochemistry. Needham wrote several books, including A History of Embryology (1934).
Mar 19, 2022 · Publish with us. Policies and ethics. This chapter explores the legacy of Joseph Needham and his contributions to the history of Chinese science. Needham was a distinguished biological scientist and a member of the “invisible college” of British socialist and Marxist scientists who were...
