Joseph Needham
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Noel Joseph Terence Montgomery Needham was a British biochemist, historian of science and sinologist known for his scientific research and writing on the history of Chinese science and technology, ini
Joseph Needham
Tang Fei-fan and Joseph Needham in Kunming, Yunnan 1944
Joseph Needham in Cambridge 1965
Lu Gwei-djen
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Lu Gwei-djen was a Chinese biochemist and historian. She was an expert on the history of science and technology in China and a researcher of nutriology. She was an important researcher and co-author o
Joseph Needham
…of science, and foresaw the part it would one day play in human welfare." Three Chinese scientists came to Cambridge for graduate study in 1937: Lu Gwei-djen, Wang Ying-lai, and Shen Shih-Chang (沈詩章, the only one under Needham's tutelage). Lu, daughter of a Nanjing pharmacist, taught Needham Chinese, igniting…
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