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 Samuel Lieu FBA
History of religions, especially of Manichaeism and Christianity, in Central Asia and China; history of Late Roman and Early Byzantine Near East; history of the Silk Road
Professor Francesca Orsini FBA
Literatures of South Asia; multilingual and located approach to world literature; book history in South Asia
Professor Derek Peterson FBA
Intellectual and cultural history of eastern Africa; the composition of books; the politics of archives; the infrastructure of religious experience; the social practice of non-conformity; Idi Amin
