Dr Joseph Needham FBA
History; Oriental and African Studies
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 1971
- Year of birth
- 1900
- Year of death
- 1995
- Honours
- CH, FRS, FBA
- Sections
- Africa, Asia and the Middle East
Current post
Emeritus Director, East Asian History of Science Library
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Andrew Gerstle FBA
The cultural and social history of 17th-19th century Japan, with particular reference to Bunraku and Kabuki theatres, popular literature, sexuality and the visual arts
Professor Janet Watson FBA
The documentation and morpho-syntactic description of modern Arabic dialects and Modern South Arabian languages; theoretical phonology and morphology with reference to Arabic and Modern South Arabian
Professor Clare Harris FBA
Art, photography, museums and material culture of Tibet, the Tibetan diaspora and India. Anthropological, art historical and curatorial research on the representation of Tibet internationally in the past and present
