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 Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad FBA
Indian philosophy focusing on Sanskrit and Pali, comparative philosophy of epistemology, metaphysics and phenomenology; classical Indian religions, especially Hindu theology in Sanskrit and Tamil, and comparative Hindu-Christian studies
Professor Jane Duckett FBA
Contemporary Chinese government and politics; Chinese health and social policy, poverty and inequality; comparative politics
Professor Roel Sterckx FBA
Classical and literary Chinese language and philology; history, religion and thought of pre-imperial and early imperial China; text and manuscript studies (Warring States, Qin, and Han periods); the natural world in pre-modern China
