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mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D1%83%D0%B7%D0%B5%D1%84_%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%B9%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%BC" title="Джоузеф Нийдам – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Джоузеф Нийдам" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Needham" title="Joseph Needham – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Joseph Needham" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Needham" title="Joseph Needham – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Joseph Needham" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Needham" title="Joseph Needham – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Joseph Needham" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A4%CE%B6%CF%8C%CE%B6%CE%B5%CF%86_%CE%9D%CE%AE%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%B1%CE%BC" title="Τζόζεφ Νήνταμ – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Τζόζεφ Νήνταμ" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Needham" title="Joseph Needham – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Joseph Needham" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Needham" title="Joseph Needham – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Joseph Needham" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%81_%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%AF%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%85" title="جوزف نیدهام – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="جوزف نیدهام" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Needham" title="Joseph Needham – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Joseph Needham" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Needham" title="Joseph Needham – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Joseph Needham" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Needham" title="Joseph Needham – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Joseph Needham" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%A1%B0%EC%A7%80%ED%94%84_%EB%8B%88%EB%8D%A4" title="조지프 니덤 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="조지프 니덤" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%9C%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%AB_%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%A7%E0%A4%AE" title="जोसेफ नीधम – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="जोसेफ नीधम" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Needham" title="Joseph Needham – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Joseph Needham" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Needham" title="Joseph Needham – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Joseph Needham" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%92%27%D7%95%D7%96%D7%A3_%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%93%D7%94%D7%9D" title="ג'וזף נידהם – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="ג'וזף נידהם" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%AF%E1%83%9D%E1%83%96%E1%83%94%E1%83%A4_%E1%83%9C%E1%83%98%E1%83%93%E1%83%94%E1%83%9B%E1%83%98" title="ჯოზეფ ნიდემი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="ჯოზეფ ნიდემი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Needham" title="Joseph Needham – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Joseph Needham" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%81_%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%85" title="چوزيف نيدام – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="چوزيف نيدام" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Needham" title="Joseph Needham – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Joseph Needham" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%82%BC%E3%83%95%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BC%E3%83%80%E3%83%A0" title="ジョゼフ・ニーダム – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="ジョゼフ・ニーダム" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Needham" title="Joseph Needham – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Joseph Needham" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pms mw-list-item"><a href="https://pms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Needham" title="Joseph Needham – Piedmontese" lang="pms" hreflang="pms" data-title="Joseph Needham" data-language-autonym="Piemontèis" data-language-local-name="Piedmontese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Piemontèis</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Needham" title="Joseph Needham – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Joseph Needham" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Needham" title="Joseph Needham – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Joseph Needham" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%B4%D1%8D%D0%BC,_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B5%D1%84" title="Нидэм, Джозеф – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Нидэм, Джозеф" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Needham" title="Joseph Needham – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="Joseph Needham" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenščina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Needham" title="Joseph Needham – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Joseph Needham" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Needham" title="Joseph Needham – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Joseph Needham" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Needham" title="Joseph Needham – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="Joseph Needham" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Türkçe</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B5%D1%84_%D0%9D%D1%96%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BC" title="Джозеф Нідем – Ukrainian" lang="uk" hreflang="uk" data-title="Джозеф Нідем" data-language-autonym="Українська" data-language-local-name="Ukrainian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Українська</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vi mw-list-item"><a href="https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Needham" title="Joseph 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id="mw-content-subtitle"></div></div> <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">British biochemist, historian and sinologist (1900–1995)</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For the cricketer, see <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Needham_(cricketer)" title="Joseph Needham (cricketer)">Joseph Needham (cricketer)</a>. 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A.">BA</a>, <a href="/wiki/MA_(Oxon)" class="mw-redirect" title="MA (Oxon)">MA</a>, <a href="/wiki/PhD" class="mw-redirect" title="PhD">PhD</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation(s)</th><td class="infobox-data role"><a href="/wiki/Biochemist" title="Biochemist">Biochemist</a>, <a href="/wiki/Historian_of_science" class="mw-redirect" title="Historian of science">historian of science</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sinologist" class="mw-redirect" title="Sinologist">sinologist</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Known for</th><td class="infobox-data"><i><a href="/wiki/Science_and_Civilisation_in_China" title="Science and Civilisation in China">Science and Civilisation in China</a></i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouses</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style></li></ul> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Dorothy_M._Needham" title="Dorothy M. Needham">Dorothy Moyle Needham</a></div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1924; died 1987)<wbr /></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1151524712"></li></ul> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Lu_Gwei-djen" title="Lu Gwei-djen">Lu Gwei-djen</a></div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1989; died 1991)<wbr /></div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Awards</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci_Medal" title="Leonardo da Vinci Medal">Leonardo da Vinci Medal</a> (1968)<br /><a href="/wiki/Dexter_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Dexter Award">Dexter Award</a> (1979)</span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr style="display:none;"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #b0c4de;">Chinese name</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Traditional_Chinese_characters" title="Traditional Chinese characters">Traditional Chinese</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Chinese-language text"><span lang="zh-Hant" style="font-size: 1rem;">李約瑟</span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Simplified_Chinese_characters" title="Simplified Chinese characters">Simplified Chinese</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Chinese-language text"><span lang="zh-Hans" style="font-size: 1rem;">李约瑟</span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;">Literal meaning</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Li_(surname_%E6%9D%8E)" title="Li (surname 李)">Li (surname 李)</a> <a href="/wiki/Joseph" title="Joseph">Joseph</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox-subbox mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="display:inline-table; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size: 100%; text-align: left;color: #202122; background-color: #f9ffbc;">Transcriptions</th></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #dcffc9;"><a href="/wiki/Standard_Chinese" title="Standard Chinese">Standard Mandarin</a></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Hanyu_Pinyin" class="mw-redirect" title="Hanyu Pinyin">Hanyu Pinyin</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Chinese-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="zh-Latn">Lǐ Yuēsè</span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Wade%E2%80%93Giles" title="Wade–Giles">Wade–Giles</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Chinese-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="zh-Latn">Li Yüeh-Sê</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Noel Joseph Terence Montgomery Needham</b> <span class="nobold noexcerpt nowraplinks" style="font-size:;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><a href="/wiki/Companion_of_Honour" class="mw-redirect" title="Companion of Honour">CH</a></span> <span style="font-size: 85%;"><a href="/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society" title="Fellow of the Royal Society">FRS</a></span> <span style="font-size: 85%;"><a href="/wiki/Fellow_of_the_British_Academy" title="Fellow of the British Academy">FBA</a></span></span><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGurdonRodbard2000365_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGurdonRodbard2000365-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'n' in 'nigh'">n</span><span title="/iː/: 'ee' in 'fleece'">iː</span><span title="'d' in 'dye'">d</span><span title="/ə/: 'a' in 'about'">ə</span><span title="'m' in 'my'">m</span></span>/</a></span></span>; 9 December 1900 – 24 March 1995) was a British <a href="/wiki/Biochemist" title="Biochemist">biochemist</a>, <a href="/wiki/Historian_of_science" class="mw-redirect" title="Historian of science">historian of science</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sinologist" class="mw-redirect" title="Sinologist">sinologist</a> known for his scientific research and writing on the history of <a href="/wiki/Science_and_technology_in_China" title="Science and technology in China">Chinese science and technology</a>, initiating publication of the multivolume <i><a href="/wiki/Science_and_Civilisation_in_China" title="Science and Civilisation in China">Science and Civilisation in China</a></i>. A focus of his was what has come to be called <a href="#The_Needham_Question"><b>the Needham Question</b></a> of why and how China had ceded its leadership in science and technology to Western countries. </p><p>He was elected a fellow of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Society" title="Royal Society">Royal Society</a> in 1941<sup id="cite_ref-winchester28-29_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-winchester28-29-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and a fellow of the <a href="/wiki/British_Academy" title="British Academy">British Academy</a> in 1971.<sup id="cite_ref-winchester238_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-winchester238-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1992, Queen <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_II" title="Elizabeth II">Elizabeth II</a> conferred on him the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_Companions_of_Honour" title="Order of the Companions of Honour">Order of the Companions of Honour</a>, and the Royal Society noted he was the only living person to hold these three titles.<sup id="cite_ref-winchester250_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-winchester250-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Joseph_Needham&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Needham's father, Joseph, was a doctor, and his mother, <a href="/wiki/Alicia_Ad%C3%A9laide_Needham" title="Alicia Adélaide Needham">Alicia Adelaïde, née Montgomery (1863–1945)</a>, was a music composer from Oldcastle, County Meath, Ireland. His father, born in East London, then a poor section of town, rose to become a <a href="/wiki/Harley_Street" title="Harley Street">Harley Street</a> physician, but frequently battled with Needham's mother. The young Needham often mediated. In his early teens, he was taken to hear the Sunday lectures of <a href="/wiki/Ernest_Barnes" title="Ernest Barnes">Ernest Barnes</a>, a professional mathematician who became <a href="/wiki/Master_of_the_Temple" class="mw-redirect" title="Master of the Temple">Master of the Temple</a>, a royal church in London. Barnes inspired an interest in the philosophers and medieval scholastics that Needham pursued in his father's library. Needham later attributed his strong Christian faith to Barnes' philosophical theology, which was founded on rational argument, and attributed his openness to the religions of other cultures to Barnes as well.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGurdonRodbard2000366,_368_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGurdonRodbard2000366,_368-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1914, with the outbreak of <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a>, Needham was sent to <a href="/wiki/Oundle_School" title="Oundle School">Oundle School</a>, founded in 1556 in <a href="/wiki/Northamptonshire" title="Northamptonshire">Northamptonshire</a>. He did not enjoy leaving home, but he later described the headmaster <a href="/wiki/Frederick_William_Sanderson" title="Frederick William Sanderson">Frederick William Sanderson</a> as a "man of genius" and said that without that influence on him at a tender age, he might not have attempted his largest work. Sanderson had been charged by the school's governors with developing a science and technology programme, which included a metal shop that gave the young Needham a grounding in engineering. Sanderson also emphasised to the boys of the school that co-operation led to higher human achievement than competition and that knowledge of history was necessary to build a better future. The Bible, in Sanderson's teaching, supplied archaeological knowledge to compare with the present. During school holidays, Needham assisted his father in the operating rooms of several wartime hospitals, an experience that convinced him that he was not interested in becoming a surgeon. The Royal Navy, however, appointed him a surgeon sub-lieutenant, a position that he held for only a few months.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGurdonRodbard2000368_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGurdonRodbard2000368-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Education">Education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Joseph_Needham&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1921, Needham graduated with a <a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts" title="Bachelor of Arts">Bachelor of Arts</a> degree from <a href="/wiki/Gonville_and_Caius_College,_Cambridge" title="Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge">Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge</a>. In January 1925, Needham earned an <a href="/wiki/Master_of_Arts_(Oxford,_Cambridge,_and_Dublin)" title="Master of Arts (Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin)">MA</a>. In October 1925, Needham earned a <a href="/wiki/PhD" class="mw-redirect" title="PhD">PhD</a>. He had intended to study medicine, but came under the influence of <a href="/wiki/Frederick_Hopkins" class="mw-redirect" title="Frederick Hopkins">Frederick Hopkins</a>, resulting in his switch to <a href="/wiki/Biochemistry" title="Biochemistry">biochemistry</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Joseph_Needham&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After graduation, Needham was elected to a fellowship at Gonville and Caius College and worked in Hopkins' laboratory at the University Department of Biochemistry, specialising in <a href="/wiki/Embryology" title="Embryology">embryology</a> and <a href="/wiki/Morphogenesis" title="Morphogenesis">morphogenesis</a>. His three-volume work <i>Chemical Embryology</i>, published in 1931, includes a history of embryology from Egyptian times up to the early 19th century, including quotations in most European languages. Including this history reflected Needham's fear that overspecialization would hold back scientific progress and that social and historical forces shaped science. In 1936, he and several other Cambridge scientists founded the History of Science Committee. The Committee included conservatives but also Marxists like <a href="/wiki/J.D._Bernal" class="mw-redirect" title="J.D. Bernal">J.D. Bernal</a>, whose views on the social and economic frameworks of science influence Needham.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMayer200443,_48_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMayer200443,_48-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Needham's <a href="/wiki/Terry_Lecture" class="mw-redirect" title="Terry Lecture">Terry Lecture</a> of 1936 was published by <a href="/wiki/Cambridge_University_Press" title="Cambridge University Press">Cambridge University Press</a> in association with <a href="/wiki/Yale_University_Press" title="Yale University Press">Yale University Press</a> under the title of <i>Order and Life</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Davies_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Davies-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1939 he produced a massive work on <a href="/wiki/Morphogenesis" title="Morphogenesis">morphogenesis</a> that a Harvard reviewer claimed "will go down in the history of science as Joseph Needham's <i>magnum opus,</i>" little knowing what would come later.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Although his career as <a href="/wiki/Biochemist" title="Biochemist">biochemist</a> and an academic was well established, his career developed in unanticipated directions during and after <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>. </p><p>Three Chinese scientists came to Cambridge for graduate study in 1937: <a href="/wiki/Lu_Gwei-djen" title="Lu Gwei-djen">Lu Gwei-djen</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wang_Ying-lai" class="mw-redirect" title="Wang Ying-lai">Wang Ying-lai</a>, and Shen Shih-Chang (<span lang="zh">沈詩章</span>, the only one under Needham's tutelage). Lu, daughter of a <a href="/wiki/Nanjing" title="Nanjing">Nanjing</a> pharmacist, taught Needham Chinese, igniting his interest in China's ancient technological and scientific past. He then pursued, and mastered, the study of <a href="/wiki/Classical_Chinese" title="Classical Chinese">Classical Chinese</a> privately with <a href="/wiki/Gustav_Haloun" title="Gustav Haloun">Gustav Haloun</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Tang_Fei-fan_and_Joseph_Needham_in_1944.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Tang_Fei-fan_and_Joseph_Needham_in_1944.jpg/220px-Tang_Fei-fan_and_Joseph_Needham_in_1944.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Tang_Fei-fan_and_Joseph_Needham_in_1944.jpg/330px-Tang_Fei-fan_and_Joseph_Needham_in_1944.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Tang_Fei-fan_and_Joseph_Needham_in_1944.jpg/440px-Tang_Fei-fan_and_Joseph_Needham_in_1944.jpg 2x" data-file-width="960" data-file-height="638" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Tang_Fei-fan" class="mw-redirect" title="Tang Fei-fan">Tang Fei-fan</a> and Joseph Needham in <a href="/wiki/Kunming" title="Kunming">Kunming</a>, <a href="/wiki/Yunnan" title="Yunnan">Yunnan</a> 1944</figcaption></figure> <p>Under the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Society" title="Royal Society">Royal Society</a>'s direction, Needham was the director of the Sino-British Science Co-operation Office in <a href="/wiki/Chongqing" title="Chongqing">Chongqing</a> from 1942 to 1946. During this time he made several long journeys through war-torn China and many smaller ones, visiting scientific and educational establishments and obtaining for them much needed supplies. His longest trip in late 1943 ended in far west in <a href="/wiki/Gansu" title="Gansu">Gansu</a> at the caves in <a href="/wiki/Dunhuang" title="Dunhuang">Dunhuang</a><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> at the end of the <a href="/wiki/Great_Wall" class="mw-redirect" title="Great Wall">Great Wall</a> where the earliest dated printed book - a copy of the <a href="/wiki/Diamond_Sutra" title="Diamond Sutra">Diamond Sutra</a> - was found.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The other long trip reached <a href="/wiki/Fuzhou" title="Fuzhou">Fuzhou</a> on the east coast, returning across the <a href="/wiki/Xiang_River" title="Xiang River">Xiang River</a> just two days before the Japanese blew up the bridge at <a href="/wiki/Hengyang" title="Hengyang">Hengyang</a> and cut off that part of China. In 1944 he visited <a href="/wiki/Yunnan" title="Yunnan">Yunnan</a> in an attempt to reach the Burmese border. Everywhere he went he purchased and was given old historical and scientific books which he shipped back to Britain through diplomatic channels. They were to form the foundation of his later research. He got to know <a href="/wiki/Zhou_Enlai" title="Zhou Enlai">Zhou Enlai</a>, first <a href="/wiki/Premier_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China" class="mw-redirect" title="Premier of the People's Republic of China">Premier of the People's Republic of China</a>, and met numerous Chinese scholars, including the painter <a href="/wiki/Wu_Zuoren" title="Wu Zuoren">Wu Zuoren</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the meteorologist <a href="/wiki/Zhu_Kezhen" class="mw-redirect" title="Zhu Kezhen">Zhu Kezhen</a>, who later sent crates of books to him in Cambridge, including 2,000 volumes of the <i><a href="/wiki/Gujin_Tushu_Jicheng" class="mw-redirect" title="Gujin Tushu Jicheng">Gujin Tushu Jicheng</a></i> encyclopaedia, a comprehensive record of China's past.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Joseph_Needham_in_Cambridge_1965_04.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Joseph_Needham_in_Cambridge_1965_04.jpg/220px-Joseph_Needham_in_Cambridge_1965_04.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="307" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Joseph_Needham_in_Cambridge_1965_04.jpg/330px-Joseph_Needham_in_Cambridge_1965_04.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Joseph_Needham_in_Cambridge_1965_04.jpg/440px-Joseph_Needham_in_Cambridge_1965_04.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3312" data-file-height="4620" /></a><figcaption>Joseph Needham in Cambridge 1965</figcaption></figure><p>On his return to Europe, he was asked by <a href="/wiki/Julian_Huxley" title="Julian Huxley">Julian Huxley</a> to become the first head of the Natural Sciences Section of <a href="/wiki/UNESCO" title="UNESCO">UNESCO</a> in Paris, France. In fact it was Needham who insisted that science should be included in the organisation's mandate at an earlier planning meeting. </p><p>After two years in which the suspicions of the Americans over scientific co-operation with communists intensified, Needham resigned in 1948 and returned to Gonville and Caius College, where he resumed his fellowship and his rooms, which were soon filled with his books. </p><p>He devoted his energy to the history of Chinese science until his retirement in 1990, even though he continued to teach some biochemistry until 1993. Needham's reputation recovered from the Korean affair (see below) such that by 1959 he was elected as president of the fellows of Caius College and in 1965 he became Master (head) of the college, a post which he held until he was 76. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Science_and_Civilisation_in_China"><i>Science and Civilisation in China</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Joseph_Needham&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Science and Civilisation in China"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Science_and_Civilisation_in_China" title="Science and Civilisation in China">Science and Civilisation in China</a></div> <p>In 1948, Needham proposed a project to the <a href="/wiki/Cambridge_University_Press" title="Cambridge University Press">Cambridge University Press</a> for a book on <i>Science and Civilisation in China</i>. Within weeks of being accepted, the project had grown to seven volumes, and it has expanded ever since. His initial collaborator was the historian <a href="/wiki/Wang_Ling_(historian)" title="Wang Ling (historian)">Wang Ling</a>, whom he had met in <a href="/wiki/Lizhuang,_Yibin" title="Lizhuang, Yibin">Lizhuang</a> and obtained a position for at <a href="/wiki/Trinity_College,_Cambridge" title="Trinity College, Cambridge">Trinity</a>. The first years were devoted to compiling a list of every mechanical invention and abstract idea that had been made and conceived in China. These included <a href="/wiki/Cast_iron" title="Cast iron">cast iron</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Ploughshare" class="mw-redirect" title="Ploughshare">ploughshare</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Stirrup" title="Stirrup">stirrup</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gunpowder" title="Gunpowder">gunpowder</a>, <a href="/wiki/Printing" title="Printing">printing</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Magnetic_compass" class="mw-redirect" title="Magnetic compass">magnetic compass</a> and clockwork escapements, most of which were thought at the time to be western inventions. The first volume eventually appeared in 1954. </p><p>The publication received widespread acclaim, which intensified to lyricism as the further volumes appeared. He wrote fifteen volumes himself, and the regular production of further volumes continued after his death in 1995. Later, Volume III was divided, so that 27 volumes have now been published. Successive volumes are published as they are completed, which means that they do not appear in the order originally contemplated in the project's prospectus. </p><p>Needham's final organizing schema was: </p> <ul><li>Vol. I. <i>Introductory Orientations</i></li> <li>Vol. II. <i>History of Scientific Thought</i></li> <li>Vol. III. <i>Mathematics and the Sciences of the Heavens and Earth</i></li> <li>Vol. IV. <i>Physics and Physical Technology</i></li> <li>Vol. V. <i>Chemistry and Chemical Technology</i></li> <li>Vol. VI. <i>Biology and Biological Technology</i></li> <li>Vol. VII. <i>The Social Background</i></li></ul> <p>See <i><a href="/wiki/Science_and_Civilisation_in_China" title="Science and Civilisation in China">Science and Civilisation in China</a></i> for a full list. </p><p>The project is still proceeding under the guidance of the Publications Board of the <a href="/wiki/Needham_Research_Institute" title="Needham Research Institute">Needham Research Institute</a>, directed by Professor Mei Jianjun.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="UNESCO">UNESCO</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Joseph_Needham&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: UNESCO"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/UNESCO" title="UNESCO">UNESCO</a></div> <p>Needham, along with colleague <a href="/wiki/Julian_Huxley" title="Julian Huxley">Julian Huxley</a>, was one of the founders of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (<a href="/wiki/UNESCO" title="UNESCO">UNESCO</a>). Developed in 1945 with the help of Allied governments, UNESCO is an international organization that aims to bring education to regions that had been affected by Nazi occupation.<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated1_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated1-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Needham and Huxley advocated the growth of scientific education as a means to overcome political conflict and hence founded UNESCO in an effort to expand its influence. Composed of representatives from various Allied countries, UNESCO operated on the principle that ideas and information should spread freely among nations. However, Needham disagreed with this initial mode of exchange because of its failure to include nations outside of Europe and America. </p><p>To communicate his discordance with the model, Needham wrote and distributed a formal message to others in the organization explaining its flaws. He stated that nations outside of the European-American "bright zone", or primary location of scientific advancement, needed the help of international education the most. He also argued that the lack of familiarity between other nations and those in the bright zone made ideological exchange difficult. Finally, he expressed the notion that other countries had issues disseminating knowledge because they lacked the capital necessary for distribution.<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated1_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated1-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Due to these constraints, Needham suggested that most of the organization's support should be given to the "periphery" nations that lie outside of the bright zone. </p><p>In addition to supporting periphery nations, Needham incorporated his desire for a non-Eurocentric record of science in UNESCO's mission. To this end, Huxley and Needham devised an ambitious scholarly project they called <i>The History of Scientific and Cultural Development of Mankind</i> (shortened to <i><a href="/wiki/History_of_Humanity" title="History of Humanity">History of Mankind</a></i>)<i>.</i> The goal of this project was to write a non-ethnocentric account of scientific and cultural history; it aimed to synthesize the contributions, perspectives, and development of oriental nations in the East in a way that was complementary to the Western scientific tradition. This vision was partly influenced by the political climate of the time of its planning in the late 1940s - the "East" and "West" were seen as cultural and political opposites. Working from the belief that science was the universal experience that bound humanity, Huxley and Needham hoped that their project would help ease some of the animosity between the two spheres.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The project involved hundreds of scholars from around the globe and took over a decade to reach fruition in 1966. The work is still continued today with new volumes published periodically.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Needham_Question">The Needham Question</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Joseph_Needham&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: The Needham Question"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Science_and_Civilisation_in_China#The_Needham_Question" title="Science and Civilisation in China">Science and Civilisation in China § The Needham Question</a>, <a href="/wiki/High_level_equilibrium_trap" class="mw-redirect" title="High level equilibrium trap">High level equilibrium trap</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sprouts_of_capitalism" title="Sprouts of capitalism">sprouts of capitalism</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Great_Divergence" title="Great Divergence">Great Divergence</a></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-Cleanup_rewrite plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Crystal_Clear_app_kedit.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Crystal_Clear_app_kedit.svg/40px-Crystal_Clear_app_kedit.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Crystal_Clear_app_kedit.svg/60px-Crystal_Clear_app_kedit.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Crystal_Clear_app_kedit.svg/80px-Crystal_Clear_app_kedit.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>may need to be rewritten</b> to comply with Wikipedia's <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style">quality standards</a>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Joseph_Needham&action=edit">You can help</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Talk:Joseph_Needham" title="Talk:Joseph Needham">talk page</a> may contain suggestions.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">July 2023</span>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>"Needham's Grand Question", also known as "The Needham Question", is this: why had China been overtaken by the West in science and technology, despite their earlier successes? In Needham's words, </p><p>"Why did modern science, the mathematization of hypotheses about Nature, with all its implications for advanced technology, take its meteoric rise only in the West at the time of Galileo?", and why it "had not developed in Chinese civilization" which, in the previous many centuries "was much more efficient than occidental in applying" natural knowledge to practical needs.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Joseph_Needham_2004_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Joseph_Needham_2004-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Francis_Bacon" title="Francis Bacon">Francis Bacon</a> considered four inventions as completely transforming the modern world, marking it off from the antiquity of the Middle Ages: paper and printing, gunpowder, and the magnetic compass. He regarded the origins of these inventions as 'obscure and inglorious', dying without ever knowing that all of them were Chinese. Part of Needham's work attempts to "put this record straight".<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Needham's works attribute significant weight to the impact of <a href="/wiki/Confucianism" title="Confucianism">Confucianism</a> and <a href="/wiki/Taoism" title="Taoism">Taoism</a> on the pace of Chinese scientific discovery, and emphasises the "diffusionist" approach of Chinese science as opposed to a perceived independent inventiveness in the western world. Needham thought the notion that the <a href="/wiki/Chinese_script" class="mw-redirect" title="Chinese script">Chinese script</a> had inhibited scientific thought was "grossly overrated".<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>His own research revealed a steady accumulation of scientific results throughout <a href="/wiki/History_of_China" title="History of China">Chinese history</a>. In the final volume he suggests "A continuing general and scientific progress manifested itself in traditional Chinese society but this was violently overtaken by the exponential growth of modern science after the Renaissance in Europe. China was <a href="/wiki/Homeostatic" class="mw-redirect" title="Homeostatic">homeostatic</a>, but never stagnant."<sup id="cite_ref-Joseph_Needham_2004_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Joseph_Needham_2004-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Nathan_Sivin" title="Nathan Sivin">Nathan Sivin</a>, one of Needham's collaborators, while agreeing that Needham's achievement was monumental, suggested that the "Needham question", as a counterfactual hypothesis, was not conducive to a useful answer: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>It is striking that this question – Why didn't the Chinese beat Europeans to the Scientific Revolution? – happens to be one of the few questions that people often ask in public places about why something didn't happen in history. It is analogous to the question of why your name did not appear on page 3 of today's newspaper.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESivin1995_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESivin1995-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>There are several hypotheses attempting to explain the Needham Question. Yingqiu Liu and Chunjiang Liu<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> argued that the issue rested on the lack of property rights and that those rights were only obtainable through favour of the emperor. Protection was incomplete as the emperor could rescind those rights at any time. Science and technology were subjugated to the needs of the feudal royal family, and any new discoveries were sequestered by the government for its use. The government took steps to control and interfere with private enterprises by manipulating prices and engaging in bribery. Each revolution in China redistributed property rights under the same feudal system. Land and property were reallocated first and foremost to the royal family of the new dynasty up until the late Qing Dynasty (1644–1911) when fiefdom land was taken over by warlords and merchants. These limited property rights constrained potential scientific innovations. </p><p>The Chinese Empire enacted totalitarian control and was able to do so because of its great size. There were smaller independent states that had no choice but to comply with this control. They could not afford to isolate themselves. The Chinese believed in the well-being of the state as their primary motive for economic activity, and individual initiatives were shunned. There were regulations on the press, clothing, construction, music, birth rates, and trade. The Chinese state controlled all aspects of life, severely limiting any incentives to innovate and to better one's self. "The ingenuity and inventiveness of the Chinese would no doubt have enriched China further and probably brought it to the threshold of modern industry, had it not been for this stifling state control. It is the State that kills technological progress in China".<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Meanwhile, the lack of a free market in China escalated to a new affair whereby the Chinese were restricted from carrying trade with foreigners. Foreign trade is a great source of foreign knowledge as well as the capability of acquisition of new products. Foreign trade promotes innovation as well as the expansion of a countries market. As Landes (2006)<sup id="cite_ref-:1_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> further puts it, in 1368 when the new emperor Hongwu was inaugurated, his main objective was war. (p. 6).<sup id="cite_ref-:1_26-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A lot of revenue that can otherwise be used for innovative procedures are as a result lost in wars. Heavy participation in war significantly hindered the Chinese to have the capability of focusing on the industrial revolution. Landes (2006)<sup id="cite_ref-:1_26-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> further explains that Chinese were advised to stay put and never to move without permission from the Chinese state. As illustrated, "The Ming code of core laws also sought to block social mobility" (Landes, 2006, p. 7).<sup id="cite_ref-:1_26-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> How can you expect the industrial revolution to a country that prohibited its people from performing social mobility? From the above, you will come to find that it is clear that the Chinese would not be able to achieve industrial revolution since they were heavily tamed by their state government who were naïve about the aspect of innovation. </p><p>According to Justin Lin,<sup id="cite_ref-Lin_269–292_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lin_269–292-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> China did not make the shift from an experience-based technological invention process to an experiment-based innovation process. The experience-based process depended on the size of a population, and while new technologies have come about through the trials and errors of the peasants and artisans, experiment-based processes surpasses experience-based processes in yielding new technology. Progress from experimentation following the logic of a scientific method can occur at a much faster rate because the inventor can perform many trials during the same production period under a controlled environment. Results from experimentation is dependent on the stock of scientific knowledge while results from experience-based processes is tied directly to the size of a population; hence, experiment-based innovation processes have a higher likelihood of producing better technology as human capital grows. China had about twice the population of Europe until the 13th century and so had a higher probability of creating new technologies. After the 14th century, China's population grew exponentially, but progress in innovation saw diminishing returns. Europe had a smaller population but began to integrate science and technology that arose from the scientific revolution in the 17th century. This scientific revolution gave Europe a comparative advantage in developing technology in modern times. </p><p>Lin blamed the institutions in China for preventing the adoption of the experiment-based methodology. Its sociopolitical institution inhibited intellectual creativity, but more importantly, it diverted this creativity away from scientific endeavours. Totalitarian control by the state in the Chinese Empire inhibited public dispute, competition, and the growth of modern science, while the clusters of independent European nations were more favourable to competition and scientific development. In addition, the Chinese did not have the incentives to acquire human capital necessary for modern scientific experimentation. Civil service was deemed the most rewarding and honourable work in pre-modern China. The gifted had more incentives to pursue this route to move up the social status ladder as opposed to pursuing scientific endeavours. Further the laxity and lack of innovation exhibited by China made her to be surpassed by the growing European levels of technological advancement and innovation. As Landes (2006)<sup id="cite_ref-:1_26-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> puts forward, the Chinese lived as they wanted. They were ruled by an emperor "Son of Heaven" who they termed to be unique, and he was godlike. As he further adds, this emperor had arrogant representatives who were chosen in terms of "competitive examinations in Confucian letters and morals." As explained, these representatives were submissive to their subordinates as they possessed a high degree of self-esteem. Just as put forward by Landes (2006),<sup id="cite_ref-:1_26-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the downward tyranny combined with the cultural triumphalism had made China as a state to become a bad learner. (p. 11). It is clear China could not be able to accept any information from their inferiors. </p><p>The High-Level Equilibrium Trap. High population, although sometimes it can be a cheap source of labor which is necessary for economic development, sometimes the high population can be a great setback when it comes to development. The land which a factor of production can be negatively affected by high population. The ratio of person-to-land-area will eventually decrease as the population of a community grows. During the thirteenth century, China was significantly affected by this population factor when it came to the point of ignition of an industrial revolution. As Lin (1995) puts forward, initially, the culture of the Chinese has valued the males in the society; as a result, early marriages were experienced which boosted the fertility rates leading to the rapid increase in the China population. (p. 271).<sup id="cite_ref-:0_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> An increase in population with no equivalent increase in economic and technological development will ultimately suppress the available resources causing laxity to the general economic development. The high population experienced in China significantly raised the man to land ratio. The China population was massive. Just as Lin (1995)<sup id="cite_ref-:0_28-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> elaborates, the raising man-land-ratio in the Chinese meant that there was a diminishing surplus per capita. Due to this, China were not able to have surplus resources which can be tapped and used to ignite the industrial revolution. Just as Lin (1995)<sup id="cite_ref-:0_28-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> puts forward, Europeans were enjoying an optimum man to land ratio with no land strain. The Europeans also had vast unexploited technologies as well as economics possibilities. All these advantages were possible because of the feudal system that the European had embraced, (p. 272). The availability of unexploited ventures made European have significant potential in the execution of a fully-fledged industrial revolution. Lin (1995)<sup id="cite_ref-:0_28-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> further adds that although Europe was lagging behind China during the pre-modern era in terms of economic and technological advancements, the right time finally came for Europe to use the accumulated sufficient knowledge. A strong need to save labor was finally felt in Europe. The agrarian revolution experienced before also provided agricultural surplus that ultimately served as the core assets towards financing the industrial revolution. (p. 272). The accumulation of adequate labor and knowledge to their threshold was a significant step that the European embraced to ignite an industrial revolution. It is also clear that the agrarian revolution experienced in Europe was a tangible asset towards industrialization. The issue of the abundance of land was also at the forefront in ensuring that industrial revolution was realized in Europe contrary to what was experienced in China whereby the large populations put a lot of strain to the available resources as a result making industrial revolution unattainable in China during the early fourteenth century. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Evaluations_and_critiques">Evaluations and critiques</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Joseph_Needham&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Evaluations and critiques"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Needham's work has been criticised by most scholars who assert that it has a strong inclination to exaggerate <a href="/wiki/List_of_Chinese_inventions" title="List of Chinese inventions">Chinese technological achievements</a> and has an excessive propensity to assume a Chinese origin for the wide range of objects his work covered. Pierre-Yves Manguin writes, for instance: </p> <blockquote> <p>J Needham's (1971) monumental work on Chinese <a href="/wiki/Nautical" class="mw-redirect" title="Nautical">nautics</a> offers by far the most scholarly synthesis on the subjects of Chinese shipbuilding and navigation. His propensity to view the Chinese as the initiators of all things and his constant references to the superiority of Chinese over the rest of the world's techniques does at times detract from his argument.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </blockquote> <p>In another vein of criticism, <a href="/wiki/Andre_Gunder_Frank" title="Andre Gunder Frank">Andre Gunder Frank</a>'s <i>Re-Orient</i> argues that despite Needham's contributions in the field of Chinese technological history, he still struggled to break free from his preconceived notions of European exceptionalism. Re-Orient criticizes Needham for his <a href="/wiki/Eurocentric" class="mw-redirect" title="Eurocentric">Eurocentric</a> assumptions borrowed from <a href="/wiki/Marx" class="mw-redirect" title="Marx">Marx</a> and the presupposition of Needham's famous Grand Question that science was a uniquely Western phenomenon. Frank observes: </p> <blockquote> <p>Alas, it was also originally Needham's <a href="/wiki/Marxist" class="mw-redirect" title="Marxist">Marxist</a> and <a href="/wiki/Weberian" class="mw-redirect" title="Weberian">Weberian</a> point of departure. As Needham found more and more evidence about science and technology in China, he struggled to liberate himself from his Eurocentric original sin, which he had inherited directly from Marx, as Cohen also observes. But Needham never quite succeeded, perhaps because his concentration on China prevented him from sufficiently revising his still ethnocentric view of Europe itself.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFrank1998189_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFrank1998189-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </blockquote> <p>T. H. Barrett asserts in <i>The Woman Who Discovered Printing</i> that Needham was unduly critical of <a href="/wiki/Buddhism" title="Buddhism">Buddhism</a>, describing it as having 'tragically played a part in strangling the growth of Chinese science,' to which Needham readily conceded in a conversation a few years later.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBarrett2008134_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBarrett2008134-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Barrett also criticizes Needham's favoritism and uncritical evaluation of <a href="/wiki/Taoism" title="Taoism">Taoism</a> in Chinese technological history: </p> <blockquote> <p>He had a tendency — not entirely justified in the light of more recent research — to think well of Taoism, because he saw it as playing a part that could not be found elsewhere in Chinese civilization. The mainstream school of thinking of the bureaucratic Chinese elite, or '<a href="/wiki/Confucianism" title="Confucianism">Confucianism</a>' (another problematic term) in his vocabulary, seemed to him to be less interested in science and technology, and to have 'turned its face away from Nature.' Ironically, the dynasty that apparently turned away from printing from 706 till its demise in 907 was as Taoist as any in Chinese history, though perhaps its 'state Taoism' would have seemed a corrupt and inauthentic business to Needham.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBarrett2008135_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBarrett2008135-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </blockquote> <p><a href="/wiki/Daiwie_Fu" title="Daiwie Fu">Daiwie Fu</a>, in the essay "On <i>Mengxi bitan'</i>s World of Marginalities and 'South-pointing Needles': Fragment Translation vs. Contextual Tradition", criticises Needham, among other Western scholars, for translations that select fragments deemed “scientific,” usually without appreciating the unity of the text, the context of the quotation, and taxonomy in which those fragments are embedded, then reorganize and reinterpret them in a new, Western taxonomy and narrative. Needham used this process of selection and re-assembly to argue for a Chinese tradition of science that did not exist as such.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFu1999_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFu1999-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Justin_Yifu_Lin" title="Justin Yifu Lin">Justin Lin</a> argues against Needham's premise that China's early adoption of modern socioeconomic institutions contributed heavily to its technological advancement. Lin contends that technological advancements at this time were largely separate from economic circumstance, and that the effects of these institutions on technological advancement were indirect.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Political_involvement">Political involvement</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Joseph_Needham&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Political involvement"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Needham's political views were unorthodox and his lifestyle controversial. His left-wing stance was based in a form of <a href="/wiki/Christian_socialism" title="Christian socialism">Christian socialism</a>. However he was influenced by <a href="/wiki/Louis_Rapkine" title="Louis Rapkine">Louis Rapkine</a> and <a href="/wiki/Liliana_Lubi%C5%84ska" title="Liliana Lubińska">Liliana Lubińska</a>, both <a href="/wiki/Marxists" class="mw-redirect" title="Marxists">Marxists</a> brought up with a <a href="/wiki/Jewish" class="mw-redirect" title="Jewish">Jewish</a> <a href="/wiki/Anti-clericism" class="mw-redirect" title="Anti-clericism">anti-clerical</a> outlook.<sup id="cite_ref-Blue_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Blue-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He never joined any <a href="/wiki/Communist_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Communist Party">Communist Party</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Blue_35-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Blue-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After 1949 his sympathy with Chinese culture was extended to the new government. During his stay in China, Needham was asked to analyse some cattle cakes that had been scattered by American aircraft in the south of China at the end of World War II, and found they were impregnated with <a href="/wiki/Anthrax" title="Anthrax">anthrax</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the <a href="/wiki/Korean_War" title="Korean War">Korean War</a> he made further accusations that the Americans had used <a href="/wiki/Biological_warfare" title="Biological warfare">biological warfare</a>. <a href="/wiki/Zhou_Enlai" title="Zhou Enlai">Zhou Enlai</a> coordinated an international campaign to enlist Needham for a study commission, tacitly offering access to materials and contacts in China needed for his then early research. Needham agreed to be an inspector in <a href="/wiki/North_Korea" title="North Korea">North Korea</a> and his report supported the <a href="/wiki/Allegations_of_biological_warfare_in_the_Korean_War" title="Allegations of biological warfare in the Korean War">allegations</a> (it is debated to this very day whether the evidence had been planted as a part of a complicated disinformation campaign). Needham's biographer <a href="/wiki/Simon_Winchester" title="Simon Winchester">Simon Winchester</a> claimed that "Needham was intellectually in love with communism; and yet communist spymasters and agents, it turned out, had pitilessly duped him." Needham was blacklisted by the US government until well into the 1970s.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1965, with <a href="/wiki/Derek_Bryan_(diplomat)" class="mw-redirect" title="Derek Bryan (diplomat)">Derek Bryan</a>, a retired diplomat whom he first met in China, Needham established the <a href="/wiki/Society_for_Anglo-Chinese_Understanding" title="Society for Anglo-Chinese Understanding">Society for Anglo-Chinese Understanding</a>, which for some years provided the only way for British subjects to visit the People's Republic of China. On a visit to China in 1964 he was met by Zhou Enlai, and in 1965 stated that "China has a better government now than for centuries",<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but on a visit in 1972 he was deeply depressed by the changes under the <a href="/wiki/Cultural_Revolution" title="Cultural Revolution">Cultural Revolution</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Joseph_Needham&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Needham married the biochemist <a href="/wiki/Dorothy_M._Needham" title="Dorothy M. Needham">Dorothy Moyle</a> (1896–1987) in 1924 and they became the first husband and wife both to be elected as <a href="/wiki/Fellows_of_the_Royal_Society" class="mw-redirect" title="Fellows of the Royal Society">Fellows of the Royal Society</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Davies_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Davies-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Simon Winchester notes that, in his younger days, Needham was an avid <a href="/wiki/Gymnosophy" title="Gymnosophy">gymnosophist</a> and he was always attracted by pretty women.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When he and <a href="/wiki/Lu_Gwei-djen" title="Lu Gwei-djen">Lu Gwei-djen</a> met in 1937, they fell deeply in love, which Dorothy accepted. The three of them eventually lived contentedly on the same road in Cambridge for many years. In 1989, two years after Dorothy's death, Needham married Lu, who died two years later. He suffered from <a href="/wiki/Parkinson%27s_disease" title="Parkinson's disease">Parkinson's disease</a> from 1982, and died at the age of 94 at his Cambridge home.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGurdonRodbard2000_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGurdonRodbard2000-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2008, the Chair of Chinese in the University of Cambridge, a post never awarded to Needham, was endowed in his honour as the <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Needham_Professorship_of_Chinese_History,_Science,_and_Civilization" class="mw-redirect" title="Joseph Needham Professorship of Chinese History, Science, and Civilization">Joseph Needham Professorship of Chinese History, Science and Civilisation</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Since 2016, an annual Needham Memorial Lecture is held at Clare College. </p><p>Needham was a high church <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Catholic" class="mw-redirect" title="Anglo-Catholic">Anglo-Catholic</a> who worshipped regularly at <a href="/wiki/Ely_Cathedral" title="Ely Cathedral">Ely Cathedral</a> and in the college chapel, but he also described himself as an "honorary <a href="/wiki/Taoist" class="mw-redirect" title="Taoist">Taoist</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Honours_and_awards">Honours and awards</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Joseph_Needham&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Honours and awards"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1961, Needham was awarded the <a href="/wiki/George_Sarton_Medal" title="George Sarton Medal">George Sarton Medal</a> by the <a href="/wiki/History_of_Science_Society" title="History of Science Society">History of Science Society</a> and in 1966 he became Master of <a href="/wiki/Gonville_and_Caius_College" class="mw-redirect" title="Gonville and Caius College">Gonville and Caius College</a>. In 1979, Joseph Needham received the <a href="/wiki/Dexter_Award_for_Outstanding_Achievement_in_the_History_of_Chemistry" class="mw-redirect" title="Dexter Award for Outstanding Achievement in the History of Chemistry">Dexter Award for Outstanding Achievement in the History of Chemistry</a> from the <a href="/wiki/American_Chemical_Society" title="American Chemical Society">American Chemical Society</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ACSDexter2_48-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ACSDexter2-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1984, Needham became the fourth recipient of the J.D. Bernal Award, awarded by the Society for Social Studies of Science. In 1990, he was awarded the <a href="/wiki/Fukuoka_Asian_Culture_Prize" class="mw-redirect" title="Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize">Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize</a> by <a href="/wiki/Fukuoka,_Fukuoka" class="mw-redirect" title="Fukuoka, Fukuoka">Fukuoka City</a>. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Needham_Research_Institute" title="Needham Research Institute">Needham Research Institute</a> in <a href="/wiki/Robinson_College" class="mw-redirect" title="Robinson College">Robinson College</a> in Cambridge, devoted to the study of China's scientific history, was opened in 1985 by <a href="/wiki/Prince_Philip,_Duke_of_Edinburgh" title="Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh">Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh</a> and <a href="/wiki/List_of_chancellors_of_the_University_of_Cambridge" title="List of chancellors of the University of Cambridge">Chancellor of Cambridge University</a>. </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_Companions_of_Honour" title="Order of the Companions of Honour">Order of the Companions of Honour</a>, 1992.<sup id="cite_ref-winchester250_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-winchester250-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/British_Academy" title="British Academy">British Academy</a>, 1971.<sup id="cite_ref-winchester238_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-winchester238-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Society" title="Royal Society">Royal Society</a>, 1941.<sup id="cite_ref-winchester28-29_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-winchester28-29-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Works">Works</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Joseph_Needham&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Science, Religion and Reality</i> (1925)</li> <li><i>Man a Machine</i> (1927) Kegan Paul</li> <li><i>Chemical Embryology</i> (1931) C.U.P.</li> <li><i>The Great Amphibium: Four Lectures on the Position of Religion in a World Dominated by Science</i> (1931)</li> <li><i>A History of Embryology</i> (1934, 1959) C.U.P.</li> <li><i>Order and Life</i> The Terry Lectures (1936)</li> <li><i>Biochemistry and Morphogenesis</i> (1942)</li> <li><i>Time: The Refreshing River (Essays and Addresses, 1932–1942)</i> (1943)</li> <li><i>Chinese Science</i> (1945) Pilot Press</li> <li><i>History Is On Our Side</i> (1947)</li> <li><i>Science Outpost; Papers of the Sino-British Science Co-Operation Office (British Council Scientific Office in China) 1942–1946</i> (1948) Pilot Press</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Science_and_Civilisation_in_China" title="Science and Civilisation in China">Science and Civilisation in China</a></i> (1954–2008...) C.U.P. – 27 volumes to date</li> <li><i>The Grand Titration: Science and Society in East and West</i> (1969) Allen & Unwin</li> <li><i>Within the Four Seas: The Dialogue of East and West</i> (1969)</li> <li><i>Clerks and Craftsmen in China and the West: Lectures and Addresses on the History of Science and Technology</i> (1970) C.U.P.</li> <li><i>Chinese Science: Explorations of an Ancient Tradition</i> (1973) Ed. <a href="/wiki/Shigeru_Nakayama" title="Shigeru Nakayama">Shigeru Nakayama</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nathan_Sivin" title="Nathan Sivin">Nathan Sivin</a>. Cambridge : MIT Press</li> <li><i>Moulds of Understanding: A Pattern of Natural Philosophy</i> (1976) Allen & Unwin</li> <li><i>The Shorter Science and Civilisation in China</i> (5 volumes) (1980–95) – an abridgement by <a href="/wiki/Colin_Ronan" title="Colin Ronan">Colin Ronan</a></li> <li><i>Science in Traditional China : A Comparative Perspective</i> (1982)</li> <li><i>The Genius of China</i> (1986) A one-volume distillation by <a href="/wiki/Robert_K._G._Temple" class="mw-redirect" title="Robert K. G. Temple">Robert Temple</a> Simon & Schuster</li> <li><i>Heavenly Clockwork : The Great Astronomical Clocks of Medieval China</i> (1986) C.U.P.</li> <li><i>The Hall of Heavenly Records : Korean Astronomical Instruments and Clocks, 1380–1780</i> (1986) C.U.P.</li> <li><i>A Selection from the Writings of Joseph Needham</i> ed Mansel Davies, The Book Guild 1990</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Joseph_Needham&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Four_Great_Inventions" title="Four Great Inventions">Four Great Inventions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/G._E._R._Lloyd" title="G. E. R. Lloyd">G. E. R. Lloyd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_sinologists" title="List of sinologists">List of sinologists</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_historians" title="List of historians">List of historians</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Rise_of_the_West" title="The Rise of the West">The Rise of the West</a></i></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Joseph_Needham&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Citations">Citations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Joseph_Needham&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Citations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style 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(2004)</a>, p. 43, 48.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Davies-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Davies_8-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Davies_8-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription 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.cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFMansel_Davies2005" class="citation news cs1">Mansel Davies (27 March 2005). <span class="id-lock-subscription" title="Paid subscription required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/obituaryjoseph-needham-1612984.html">"Obituary: Joseph Needham"</a></span>. <i>The Independent</i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220617/https://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/obituaryjoseph-needham-1612984.html">Archived</a> from the original on 17 June 2022<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">19 July</span> 2010</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Independent&rft.atitle=Obituary%3A+Joseph+Needham&rft.date=2005-03-27&rft.au=Mansel+Davies&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.independent.co.uk%2Fopinion%2Fobituaryjoseph-needham-1612984.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJoseph+Needham" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFWinchester2008">Winchester 2008</a>, p. 50</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Gregory, 'Joseph Needham,' in Peter Harman, Simon Mitton, (eds.) <i>Cambridge scientific minds,</i>Cambridge University Press, 2002 pp.299–312, p.305.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFNeedham" class="citation web cs1">Needham, Joseph. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-NRI-00002-00005-00012-00004/1">"Joseph Needham's sketchbook from his visit to the Buddhist grottoes at Chienfodong 千佛洞 (Qianfodong), Dunhuang, Gansu Province,... (NRI2/5/12/4)"</a>. Cambridge Digital Library<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">12 July</span> 2016</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Joseph+Needham%27s+sketchbook+from+his+visit+to+the+Buddhist+grottoes+at+Chienfodong+%E5%8D%83%E4%BD%9B%E6%B4%9E+%28Qianfodong%29%2C+Dunhuang%2C+Gansu+Province%2C...+%28NRI2%2F5%2F12%2F4%29&rft.pub=Cambridge+Digital+Library&rft.aulast=Needham&rft.aufirst=Joseph&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fcudl.lib.cam.ac.uk%2Fview%2FMS-NRI-00002-00005-00012-00004%2F1&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJoseph+Needham" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">For images and a transcription of his diary of this journey see <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://idp.bl.uk/database/oo_loader.a4d?pm=NRI2/5/12/1">http://idp.bl.uk/database/oo_loader.a4d?pm=NRI2/5/12/1</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFNeedham" class="citation web cs1">Needham, Joseph. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-NRI-00002-00005-00012-00001/130">"Joseph Needham's journal of his tour in North-West China, Aug.7-Dec.14, 1943 (NRI2/5/12/1)"</a>. <i>Cambridge Digital Library</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Multhauf, "Joseph Needham (1900–1995)," <i>Technology and Culture</i> 37.4 (1996): 880–891. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/3107121">3107121</a>.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSpence2008" class="citation magazine cs1">Spence, Jonathan (14 August 2008). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220724042731/https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2008/08/14/the-passions-of-joseph-needham/?utm_source=chinafile&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=none">"The Passions of Joseph Needham"</a>. China File: New York Review of Books. Archived from the original on 24 July 2022<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">24 July</span> 2022</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=The+Passions+of+Joseph+Needham&rft.date=2008-08-14&rft.aulast=Spence&rft.aufirst=Jonathan&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nybooks.com%2Farticles%2F2008%2F08%2F14%2Fthe-passions-of-joseph-needham%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJoseph+Needham" class="Z3988"></span> <span class="cs1-visible-error citation-comment"><code class="cs1-code">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Cite_magazine" title="Template:Cite magazine">cite magazine</a>}}</code>: </span><span class="cs1-visible-error citation-comment">Cite magazine requires <code class="cs1-code">|magazine=</code> (<a href="/wiki/Help:CS1_errors#missing_periodical" title="Help:CS1 errors">help</a>)</span><span class="cs1-maint citation-comment">CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (<a href="/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_bot:_original_URL_status_unknown" title="Category:CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown">link</a>)</span>.</li> <li>Roel Sterckx. <i>In the Fields of Shennong: An inaugural lecture delivered before the University of Cambridge on 30 September 2008 to mark the establishment of the Joseph Needham Professorship of Chinese History, Science and Civilization</i>. Cambridge: Needham Research Institute, 2008 (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-9546771-1-0" title="Special:BookSources/0-9546771-1-0">0-9546771-1-0</a>).</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWinchester2008" class="citation book cs1">Winchester, Simon (2008). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/manwholovedchina00simo_0"><i>The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom</i></a></span>. New York: <a href="/wiki/HarperCollins" title="HarperCollins">HarperCollins</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-06-088459-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-06-088459-8"><bdi>978-0-06-088459-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Man+Who+Loved+China%3A+The+Fantastic+Story+of+the+Eccentric+Scientist+Who+Unlocked+the+Mysteries+of+the+Middle+Kingdom&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=HarperCollins&rft.date=2008&rft.isbn=978-0-06-088459-8&rft.aulast=Winchester&rft.aufirst=Simon&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fmanwholovedchina00simo_0&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJoseph+Needham" class="Z3988"></span> Published in Great Britain as <i>Bomb, Book and Compass</i>.</li></ul> <dl><dd><dl><dd>A popular biography characterized by Nathan Siven as a "sniggering biography by a writer who specializes in rollicking tales of English eccentrics" and is "unprepared to deal with [Needham's] historic work." —<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSivin2013" class="citation web cs1">Sivin, Nathan (2013). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199920082/obo-9780199920082-0006.xml#obo-9780199920082-0006-bibItem-0003">"The Needham Question"</a>. Oxford Bibliographies.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=The+Needham+Question&rft.series=Oxford+Bibliographies&rft.date=2013&rft.aulast=Sivin&rft.aufirst=Nathan&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oxfordbibliographies.com%2Fview%2Fdocument%2Fobo-9780199920082%2Fobo-9780199920082-0006.xml%23obo-9780199920082-0006-bibItem-0003&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJoseph+Needham" class="Z3988"></span></dd></dl></dd></dl> <ul><li>Francesca Bray, "How Blind Is Love?: Simon Winchester's <i>The Man Who Loved China</i><span style="padding-left:.15em;">"</span>, <i>Technology and Culture </i>51.3 (2010): 578–588. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/40927987">40927987</a>.</li></ul> <dl><dt>The "Needham Question"</dt></dl> <ul><li>Elvin, Mark, "Introduction (Symposium: The Work of Joseph Needham)", <i>Past & Present</i> no. 87 (1980): 17–20. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/650562">650562</a>.</li> <li>Cullen, Christopher, "Joseph Needham on Chinese Astronomy," <i>Past & Present</i> no. 87 (1980): 39–53. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/650565">650565</a>.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFu1999" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Fu_Daiwie" class="mw-redirect" title="Fu Daiwie">Fu, Daiwie</a> (1999). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20131206174303/http://books.openedition.org/editionsmsh/1494">"On <i>Mengxi bitan</i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span>s World of Marginalities and 'South-pointing Needles': Fragment Translation vs. Contextual Tradition"</a>. In Alleton, Vivianne; Lackner, Michael (eds.). <i>De l'un au multiple: traductions du chinois vers les langues européennes Translations from Chinese into European Languages</i>. Les Editions de la MSH, <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fondation_Maison_des_sciences_de_l%27homme" class="extiw" title="fr:Fondation Maison des sciences de l'homme">FR</a>. Paris: Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme. pp. 176–201. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/273510768X" title="Special:BookSources/273510768X"><bdi>273510768X</bdi></a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.openedition.org/editionsmsh/1494">the original</a> on 6 December 2013.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=On+Mengxi+bitan%27s+World+of+Marginalities+and+%27South-pointing+Needles%27%3A+Fragment+Translation+vs.+Contextual+Tradition&rft.btitle=De+l%27un+au+multiple%3A+traductions+du+chinois+vers+les+langues+europ%C3%A9ennes+Translations+from+Chinese+into+European+Languages&rft.place=Paris&rft.series=Les+Editions+de+la+MSH%2C+FR&rft.pages=176-201&rft.pub=%C3%89ditions+de+la+Maison+des+sciences+de+l%27homme&rft.date=1999&rft.isbn=273510768X&rft.aulast=Fu&rft.aufirst=Daiwie&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fbooks.openedition.org%2Feditionsmsh%2F1494&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJoseph+Needham" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSivin1995" class="citation book cs1">Sivin, Nathan (1995). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~nsivin/scirev.pdf">"Why the Scientific Revolution Did Not Take Place in China – Or Didn't It?"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. In Sivin, Nathan (ed.). <i>Science in Ancient China</i>. Aldershot, Hants: Variorum. pp. Ch VII.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Why+the+Scientific+Revolution+Did+Not+Take+Place+in+China+%E2%80%93+Or+Didn%27t+It%3F&rft.btitle=Science+in+Ancient+China&rft.place=Aldershot%2C+Hants&rft.pages=Ch+VII&rft.pub=Variorum&rft.date=1995&rft.aulast=Sivin&rft.aufirst=Nathan&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fccat.sas.upenn.edu%2F~nsivin%2Fscirev.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJoseph+Needham" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li>Justin Y. Lin, "The Needham Puzzle: Why the Industrial Revolution Did Not Originate in China," <i>Economic development and cultural change</i> 43.2 (1995): 269–292. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/1154499">1154499</a>.</li> <li>Timothy Brook, "The Sinology of Joseph Needham," <i>Modern China </i>22.3 (1996): 340–348. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/189191">189191</a>.</li> <li>Robert P. Multhauf, "Joseph Needham (1900–1995)," <i>Technology and Culture </i>37.4 (1996): 880–891. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/3107121">3107121</a>.</li> <li>Gregory Blue, "Joseph Needham, Heterodox Marxism and the Social Background to Chinese Science," <i>Science & Society </i>62.2 (1998): 195–217. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/40403699">40403699</a>.</li> <li>Robert Finlay, "China, the West, and World History in Joseph Needham's <i>Science and Civilisation in China</i>," <i>Journal of World History </i>11 (Fall 2000): 265–303.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSivin2013" class="citation web cs1">Sivin, Nathan (2013). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199920082/obo-9780199920082-0006.xml#obo-9780199920082-0006-bibItem-0003">"The Needham Question"</a>. Oxford Bibliographies.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=The+Needham+Question&rft.series=Oxford+Bibliographies&rft.date=2013&rft.aulast=Sivin&rft.aufirst=Nathan&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oxfordbibliographies.com%2Fview%2Fdocument%2Fobo-9780199920082%2Fobo-9780199920082-0006.xml%23obo-9780199920082-0006-bibItem-0003&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJoseph+Needham" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Joseph_Needham&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBarrett2008" class="citation cs2">Barrett, Timothy Hugh (2008), <i>The Woman Who Discovered Printing</i>, Great Britain: <a href="/wiki/Yale_University_Press" title="Yale University Press">Yale University Press</a>, <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-300-12728-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-300-12728-7"><bdi>978-0-300-12728-7</bdi></a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Woman+Who+Discovered+Printing&rft.place=Great+Britain&rft.pub=Yale+University+Press&rft.date=2008&rft.isbn=978-0-300-12728-7&rft.aulast=Barrett&rft.aufirst=Timothy+Hugh&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJoseph+Needham" class="Z3988"></span> (alk. paper)</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFrank1998" class="citation cs2">Frank, Andre Gunder (1998), <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/reorient00andr"><i>ReORIENT</i></a></span>, Berkeley and Los Angeles, California: <a href="/wiki/University_of_California_Press" title="University of California Press">University of California Press</a>, <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780520214743" title="Special:BookSources/9780520214743"><bdi>9780520214743</bdi></a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=ReORIENT&rft.place=Berkeley+and+Los+Angeles%2C+California&rft.pub=University+of+California+Press&rft.date=1998&rft.isbn=9780520214743&rft.aulast=Frank&rft.aufirst=Andre+Gunder&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Freorient00andr&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJoseph+Needham" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li>Yoke, Ho Peng. <i>Reminiscences of a Roving Scholar: Science, Humanities and Joseph Needham</i>. xii, 240 pp. Singapore: <a href="/wiki/World_Scientific_Publishing" class="mw-redirect" title="World Scientific Publishing">World Scientific Publishing</a>, 2005.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Joseph_Needham&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dt>English</dt></dl> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110724112804/http://triplejtv.net/local/stories/2009/05/14/2570645.htm">Interview with biographer Simon Winchester on ABC Brisbane</a> September 2000</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nri.cam.ac.uk/">Needham Research Institute</a> (NRI)</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nri.cam.ac.uk/science.html"><i>Science and Civilisation in China</i></a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://pioneer.netserv.chula.ac.th/~hsoraj/web/APPEND.html">Asian Philosophy and Critical Thinking</a> Divergence or Convergence?</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20031009013557/http://www.ihns.ac.cn/needhamrelated.htm">Guide to manuscripts by British scientists</a>: N, O.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20061019.shtml">BBC Radio4 'In Our Time'</a> audio stream on the Needham Question.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/search.php?query=%28%28subject%3A%22Needham%2C%20Joseph%22%20OR%20subject%3A%22Joseph%20Needham%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22Needham%2C%20Joseph%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22Joseph%20Needham%22%20OR%20title%3A%22Joseph%20Needham%22%20OR%20description%3A%22Needham%2C%20Joseph%22%20OR%20description%3A%22Joseph%20Needham%22%29%20OR%20%28%221900-1995%22%20AND%20Needham%29%29%20AND%20%28-mediatype:software%29">Works by or about Joseph Needham</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Internet_Archive" title="Internet Archive">Internet Archive</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.economist.com/books/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11496751">Question marks: Chinese invention</a> – The Economist, 5 June 2008, review of Needham biography by Simon Winchester</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nri.cam.ac.uk/JN_wartime_photos/home.htm">Needham's wartime photos in China</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150222133553/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/CHIN-02-180215.html">The Answer to the Needham Question?</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80009774">Imperial War Museum Interview</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/needham">Joseph Needham Collection</a> of digitised photographs and journals from the NRI archive in <a href="/wiki/Cambridge_Digital_Library" title="Cambridge Digital Library">Cambridge Digital Library</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>Chinese</dt></dl> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20040218164555/http://big5.xinhuanet.com/gate/big5/news.xinhuanet.com/world/2003-03/09/content_767365.htm">Xinhua：Today's NRI</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080316123225/http://www.ihns.ac.cn/news/2004/reference%20for%20needham%20studies.htm">Papers in Chinese 1991–2004 on Needham and his Grand Question</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20040108021127/http://www.guxiang.com/lishi/shihua/mingjia/200306/200306190026.htm">Needham and his early knowledge on Chinese culture</a></li></ul> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <table class="wikitable succession-box noprint" style="margin:0.5em auto; font-size:small;clear:both;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="3" style="border-top: 5px solid #DAA520;">Academic offices </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Nevill_Francis_Mott" title="Nevill Francis Mott">Sir Nevill Francis Mott</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> Master of <a href="/wiki/Gonville_and_Caius_College,_Cambridge" title="Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge">Gonville and Caius College</a> </b><br />1966–1976 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/William_Wade_(legal_scholar)" title="William Wade (legal scholar)">Sir William Wade</a></div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="navbox-styles"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul 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title="Yao Zhen">Yao Zhen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hsiang-Tung_Chang" class="mw-redirect" title="Hsiang-Tung Chang">Zhang Xiangtong <small>(Hsiang-Tung Chang)</small></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zhang_Xiaoqian" title="Zhang Xiaoqian">Zhang Xiaoqian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zhu_Futang" title="Zhu Futang">Zhu Futang</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zhu_Zuxiang" title="Zhu Zuxiang">Zhu Zuxiang</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Division_of_Earth_Sciences" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Division of Earth Sciences</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ding_Zhongli" title="Ding Zhongli">Ding Zhongli</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fu_Jiamo" title="Fu Jiamo">Fu Jiamo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gao_Shan" title="Gao Shan">Gao Shan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jia_Lanpo" title="Jia Lanpo">Jia Lanpo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Li_Siguang" title="Li Siguang">Li Siguang</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liu_Dongsheng" title="Liu Dongsheng">Liu Dongsheng</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ouyang_Ziyuan" title="Ouyang Ziyuan">Ouyang Ziyuan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pei_Wenzhong" title="Pei Wenzhong">Pei Wenzhong</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ren_Mei%27e" title="Ren Mei'e">Ren Mei'e</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tan_Qixiang" title="Tan Qixiang">Tan Qixiang</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Weng_Wenhao" title="Weng Wenhao">Weng Wenhao</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Xie_Xuejin" title="Xie Xuejin">Xie Xuejin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shi_Yafeng" title="Shi Yafeng">Shi Yafeng</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ye_Duzheng" title="Ye Duzheng">Ye Duzheng</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zhang_Benren" title="Zhang Benren">Zhang Benren</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zhao_Jiuzhang" title="Zhao Jiuzhang">Zhao Jiuzhang</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coching_Chu" class="mw-redirect" title="Coching Chu">Zhu Kezhen <small>(Coching Chu)</small></a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Division_of_Information_Technical_Sciences" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Division of Information Technical Sciences</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/He_Jifeng" title="He Jifeng">He Jifeng</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Huang_Hongjia" title="Huang Hongjia">Huang Hongjia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Song_Jian" title="Song Jian">Song Jian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wang_Xuan_(computer_scientist)" title="Wang Xuan (computer scientist)">Wang Xuan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Yao" title="Andrew Yao">Yao Qizhi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zhou_Chaochen" title="Zhou Chaochen">Zhou Chaochen</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Division_of_Technological_Sciences" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Division of Technological Sciences</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chen_Da_(scientist)" title="Chen Da (scientist)">Chen Da</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chen_Nengkuan" title="Chen Nengkuan">Chen Nengkuan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gu_Binglin" title="Gu Binglin">Gu Binglin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guo_Kexin" title="Guo Kexin">Guo Kexin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Han_Zhenxiang" title="Han Zhenxiang">Han Zhenxiang</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hu_Haiyan" title="Hu Haiyan">Hu Haiyan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hu_Haichang" title="Hu Haichang">Hu Haichang</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hu_Haiyan" title="Hu Haiyan">Hu Haiyan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ke_Jun" title="Ke Jun">Ke Jun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Li_Guohao" title="Li Guohao">Li Guohao</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Li_Tian" title="Li Tian">Li Tian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Li_Zhijian" title="Li Zhijian">Li Zhijian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liang_Sicheng" title="Liang Sicheng">Liang Sicheng</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liang_Sili" title="Liang Sili">Liang Sili</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liu_Gaolian" title="Liu Gaolian">Liu Gaolian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lu_Yongxiang_(engineer)" title="Lu Yongxiang (engineer)">Lu Yongxiang</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mao_Yisheng" title="Mao Yisheng">Mao Yisheng</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pan_Jiazheng" title="Pan Jiazheng">Pan Jiazheng</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Qi_Kang_(architect)" title="Qi Kang (architect)">Qi Kang</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ren_Xinmin" title="Ren Xinmin">Ren Xinmin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shao_Xianghua" title="Shao Xianghua">Shao Xianghua</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shi_Changxu" title="Shi Changxu">Shi Changxu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tu_Shou%27e" title="Tu Shou'e">Tu Shou'e</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Xu_Caidong" title="Xu Caidong">Xu Caidong</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Xu_Zuyao" title="Xu Zuyao">Xu Zuyao</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ye_Peijian" title="Ye Peijian">Ye Peijian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zhang_Guangdou" title="Zhang Guangdou">Zhang Guangdou</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zhang_Zhongjun" title="Zhang Zhongjun">Zhang Zhongjun</a></li> <li><a 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<small>(Shiing-Shen Chern)</small></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_C._C._Ting" title="Samuel C. C. Ting">Ding Zhaozhong <small>(Samuel C. C. Ting)</small></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yuan-Cheng_Fung" title="Yuan-Cheng Fung">Feng Yuanzhen <small>(Yuan-Cheng Fung)</small></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_K._Kao" title="Charles K. Kao">Gao Kun <small>(Charles K. Kao)</small></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ernest_S._Kuh" title="Ernest S. Kuh">Ge Shouren <small>(Ernest S. Kuh)</small></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Huang" title="Thomas Huang">Huang Xutao <small>(Thomas Huang)</small></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tsung-Dao_Lee" title="Tsung-Dao Lee">Li Zhengdao <small>(Tsung-Dao Lee)</small></a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Joseph Needham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shu_Chien" title="Shu Chien">Qian Xu <small>(Shu Chien)</small></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shing-Tung_Yau" title="Shing-Tung Yau">Qiu Chengtong <small>(Shing-Tung Yau)</small></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lap-Chee_Tsui" title="Lap-Chee Tsui">Xu Lizhi <small>(Lap-Chee Tsui)</small></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ho-Kwang_Mao" title="Ho-Kwang Mao">Mao Heguang <small>(Ho-Kwang Mao)</small></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yuen-Ron_Shen" title="Yuen-Ron Shen">Shen Yuanrang <small>(Yuen-Ron Shen)</small></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sumio_Iijima" title="Sumio Iijima">Sumio Iijima</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chang-Lin_Tien" title="Chang-Lin Tien">Tian Changlin <small>(Chang-Lin Tien)</small></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chien-Shiung_Wu" title="Chien-Shiung Wu">Chien-Shiung Wu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chu_Ching-wu" class="mw-redirect" title="Chu Ching-wu">Zhu Jingwu <small>(Paul Chu)</small></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alfred_Y._Cho" title="Alfred Y. Cho">Zhuo Yihe <small>(Alfred Yi Cho)</small></a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Leonardo_da_Vinci_Medal" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Leonardo_da_Vinci_Medal" title="Template:Leonardo da Vinci Medal"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Leonardo_da_Vinci_Medal" title="Template talk:Leonardo da Vinci Medal"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Leonardo_da_Vinci_Medal" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Leonardo da Vinci Medal"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Leonardo_da_Vinci_Medal" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci_Medal" title="Leonardo da Vinci Medal">Leonardo da Vinci Medal</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1962–1982</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>1962: <a href="/wiki/Robert_J._Forbes" class="mw-redirect" title="Robert J. Forbes">Robert James Forbes</a></li> <li>1963: <a href="/wiki/Abbott_Payson_Usher" title="Abbott Payson Usher">Abbott Payson Usher</a></li> <li>1964: <a href="/wiki/Lynn_T._White" class="mw-redirect" title="Lynn T. White">Lynn T. White</a>, Jr.</li> <li>1965: <a href="/w/index.php?title=Maurice_Daumas&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Maurice Daumas (page does not exist)">Maurice Daumas</a></li> <li>1966: <a href="/wiki/Cyril_Stanley_Smith" title="Cyril Stanley Smith">Cyril Stanley Smith</a></li> <li>1967: <a href="/wiki/Melvin_Kranzberg" title="Melvin Kranzberg">Melvin Kranzberg</a></li> <li>1968: <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Joseph Needham</a></li> <li>1969: <a href="/wiki/Lewis_Mumford" title="Lewis Mumford">Lewis Mumford</a></li> <li>1970: <a href="/wiki/Bertrand_Gille_(historian)" title="Bertrand Gille (historian)">Bertrand Gille</a></li> <li>1971: <a href="/wiki/A._G._Drachmann" title="A. G. Drachmann">A. G. Drachmann</a></li> <li>1972: <a href="/w/index.php?title=Ladislao_Reti&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ladislao Reti (page does not exist)">Ladislao Reti</a></li> <li>1973: <a href="/wiki/Carl_W._Condit" title="Carl W. Condit">Carl W. Condit</a></li> <li>1974: <a href="/wiki/Bern_Dibner" title="Bern Dibner">Bern Dibner</a></li> <li>1975: <a href="/w/index.php?title=Friedrich_Klemm&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Friedrich Klemm (page does not exist)">Friedrich Klemm</a></li> <li>1976: <a href="/wiki/Derek_J._de_Solla_Price" title="Derek J. de Solla Price">Derek J. de Solla Price</a></li> <li>1977: <a href="/wiki/Eugene_S._Ferguson" title="Eugene S. Ferguson">Eugene S. Ferguson</a></li> <li>1978: <a href="/w/index.php?title=Torsten_Althin&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Torsten Althin (page does not exist)">Torsten Althin</a></li> <li>1979: <a href="/wiki/John_Ulric_Nef_(economic_historian)" title="John Ulric Nef (economic historian)">John U. Nef</a></li> <li>1980: <a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Bell_Rae&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John Bell Rae (page does not exist)">John Bell Rae</a></li> <li>1981: <a href="/w/index.php?title=Donald_S._L._Cardwell&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Donald S. L. Cardwell (page does not exist)">Donald S. L. Cardwell</a></li> <li>1982 <i>not awarded</i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1983–1999</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>1983: <a href="/wiki/Louis_C._Hunter" title="Louis C. Hunter">Louis C. Hunter</a></li> <li>1984: <a href="/w/index.php?title=Brooke_Hindle&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Brooke Hindle (page does not exist)">Brooke Hindle</a></li> <li>1985: <a href="/wiki/Thomas_P._Hughes" title="Thomas P. Hughes">Thomas P. Hughes</a></li> <li>1986: <a href="/w/index.php?title=Hugh_G._J._Aitken&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hugh G. J. Aitken (page does not exist)">Hugh G. J. Aitken</a></li> <li>1987: <a href="/wiki/Robert_P._Multhauf" title="Robert P. Multhauf">Robert P. Multhauf</a></li> <li>1988: <a href="/w/index.php?title=Sidney_M._Edelstein&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sidney M. Edelstein (page does not exist)">Sidney M. Edelstein</a></li> <li>1989: <a href="/w/index.php?title=R._Angus_Buchanan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="R. Angus Buchanan (page does not exist)">R. Angus Buchanan</a></li> <li>1990: <a href="/wiki/Edwin_T._Layton,_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="Edwin T. Layton, Jr.">Edwin T. Layton, Jr.</a></li> <li>1991: <a href="/w/index.php?title=Carroll_W._Pursell&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Carroll W. Pursell (page does not exist)">Carroll W. Pursell</a></li> <li>1992: <a href="/wiki/Otto_Mayr" title="Otto Mayr">Otto Mayr</a></li> <li>1993: <a href="/w/index.php?title=W._David_Lewis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="W. David Lewis (page does not exist)">W. David Lewis</a></li> <li>1994: <a href="/wiki/Merritt_Roe_Smith" title="Merritt Roe Smith">Merritt Roe Smith</a></li> <li>1995: <a href="/w/index.php?title=Bruce_Sinclair_(historian)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bruce Sinclair (historian) (page does not exist)">Bruce Sinclair</a></li> <li>1996: <a href="/wiki/Nathan_Rosenberg" title="Nathan Rosenberg">Nathan Rosenberg</a></li> <li>1997: <a href="/wiki/Ruth_Schwartz_Cowan" title="Ruth Schwartz Cowan">Ruth Schwartz Cowan</a></li> <li>1998: <a href="/wiki/Walter_G._Vincenti" title="Walter G. Vincenti">Walter G. Vincenti</a></li> <li>1999 <i>not awarded</i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2000-</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>2000: <a href="/wiki/Silvio_A._Bedini" class="mw-redirect" title="Silvio A. Bedini">Silvio A. Bedini</a></li> <li>2001: <a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_C._Post_(historian)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Robert C. Post (historian) (page does not exist)">Robert C. Post</a></li> <li>2002: <a href="/wiki/Leo_Marx" title="Leo Marx">Leo Marx</a></li> <li>2003: <a href="/w/index.php?title=Bart_Hacker&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bart Hacker (page does not exist)">Bart Hacker</a></li> <li>2004: <a href="/wiki/David_Landes" title="David Landes">David Landes</a></li> <li>2005: <a href="/wiki/David_E._Nye" title="David E. Nye">David E. Nye</a></li> <li>2006: <a href="/w/index.php?title=Eric_H._Robinson&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Eric H. Robinson (page does not exist)">Eric H. Robinson</a></li> <li>2007: <a href="/wiki/David_A._Hounshell" title="David A. Hounshell">David A. Hounshell</a></li> <li>2008: <a href="/wiki/Joel_A._Tarr" title="Joel A. Tarr">Joel A. Tarr</a></li> <li>2009: <a href="/wiki/Susan_J._Douglas" title="Susan J. Douglas">Susan J. Douglas</a></li> <li>2010: <a href="/wiki/Svante_Lindqvist" title="Svante Lindqvist">Svante Lindqvist</a></li> <li>2011: <a href="/w/index.php?title=John_M._Staudenmaier&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John M. Staudenmaier (page does not exist)">John M. Staudenmaier</a></li> <li>2012: <a href="/wiki/Wiebe_Bijker" title="Wiebe Bijker">Wiebe Bijker</a></li> <li>2013: <a href="/wiki/Rosalind_H._Williams" title="Rosalind H. Williams">Rosalind Williams</a></li> <li>2014: <a href="/wiki/Pamela_O._Long" title="Pamela O. Long">Pamela O. 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