biography
pronunciation:
[needam]
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| lived:
| (1900–95)
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| biography:
| Historian of science, born in London, UK. He studied at Cambridge, where he taught (1924–66), becoming Master of Gonville and Caius College (1966–76) and director of the Needham Research Institute (1976–90). He trained as a biochemist, and published a pioneering History of Embryology (1934) before developing a consuming interest in the Chinese tradition of science, technology, and medicine. His major work is the multi-volume series Science and Civilisation in China (from 1956). |
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