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 Irina Nikolaeva FBA
General linguistics; linguistic diversity and linguistic typology; language change; Uralic, Altaic and Palaeosiberian languages and linguistics; documentation and description of endangered languages
Professor Rosemary Foot FBA
International Relations, with special reference to security studies in the Asia-Pacific, including US-China relations, human rights, Asian regional institutions, and East Asian regional governance
Professor Henrietta Harrison FBA
The social and cultural history of China from the Qing through to the present, especially rural north China, links between transnational and local history, religion, diplomacy and revolution
