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( Joseph Needham)
Noel Joseph Terence Montgomery Needham, CH, FRS, FBA (December 9, 1900–March 24, 1995) , also known as Li Yuese (???; Pinyin Li Yuesè Wade-Giles Li Yüeh-Sê), was a British academic and sinologist. Needham achieved international renown of his prolific research and writing on the history of Chinese science. This polymath was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1941;[1] and he was elected a fellow of the British Academy in 1971.[2] When the Queen conferred the Companionship of Honour in 1992, the Royal Society published a notice stating that "one can count the number of living holders of these three titles on one finger of one hand."[3] Needham was the only child of a Scottish family in London his father was a doctor and his mother, Alicia Adelaïde Needham née Montgomery (1863–1945), was a composer and music teacher. Needham was educated at Cambridge University, receiving his bachelor's degree in 1921, master's degree in January 1925 and doctorate in October 1925. After graduation, he worked in F.G. Hopkins's laboratory at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, specialising in embryology and morphogenesis. Although his career as biochemist and an academic was well established, his career developed in unanticipated directions during and after World War II.
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