List of scientists from Asia

This is a list of scientists from Asia.

Afghanistan

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Armenia

Azerbaijan

Bangladesh

China

Cyprus

Georgia

India

Indonesia

Iran

Iraq

Israel

Pages appear in Category:Israeli scientists

Japan

Kazakhstan

  • Serikbolsyn Abdildin, chairman of the Supreme Council of Kazakhstan; economist
  • Askar Dzhumadildayev[10][11][12] - member of the Kazakhstan National Academy of Science.[10] He is a former member of Supreme Council of Kazakh SSR and Republic of Kazakhstan; he is a mathematician and physicist.
  • Kanysh Satbayev, he was one of the founders of Soviet metallogeny; first director of Kazakhstan Academy of Sciences.[13][14]

Kyrgyzstan

Laos

  • Daosavanh Sanamxay - the discoverer of the Laotian giant flying squirrel(en);[15] biologist

Malaysia

  • Ungku Abdul Aziz, was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Malaya, General Director of the Council on Language and Literature of Malaysia; economist
  • Martin Khor, was executive director of the South Centre (intergovernmental organisation); economist

Myanmar

Nepal

  • Kumud Dhital - he is one of the members of the team that first transplanted a heart donated after circulatory death (DCD), where the heart has stopped beating;[19] he is a surgeon.

North Korea

  • Ri Sung-gi (He is the inventor of Vinalon, and he got the Lenin Prize)

Philippines

South Korea

  • Jim Yong Kim, Korean-American, former president of the World Bank; anthropologist, physician
  • Benjamin W. Lee, Korean-American, known for his work on renormalization of the electro-weak model and gauge theory; physicist
  • Yanghee Choi - he is a former minister of Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning;[20] he is a computer scientist.

Sri Lanka

  • Saman Kelegama, was Executive Director of the Institute of Policy Studies (Sri Lanka); economist
  • Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah, won a Balzan Prize and a Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize; social anthropologist; d. 2014

Thailand

  • Phraya Anuman Ratchathon[21][22][23] was the first Thai scholar to conduct a serious study of Thai folkloristics, taking notes on the nocturnal village spirits of Thai folklore;anthropologist, ethnographer, d. 1969
  • Abhisit Vejjajiva, has been prime minister; economist

Turkey

Vietnam

References

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  6. ↑ "Georgian Academy of Sciences (GAS)". Archived from the original on 2013-10-22. Retrieved 2017-09-10.
  7. ↑ Tbilisi State University
  8. ↑ Home Page of Tamaz Gamkrelidze (2015-07-05 not accessible)
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  24. ↑ New Scientist Mathematics 'Nobel' rewards boundary-busting work 19 August 2010 "Aside from Lindenstrauss, this year's winners were Ngô Bảo Châu of the University of Paris-South, France, Stanslav Smirnov of the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and Cédric Villani of the Henri Poincaré Institute, Paris, France."
  25. ↑ The Australian Mathematical Society Asia Pacific Mathematics Newsletter April 2011 (pdf) Archived 2017-03-03 at the Wayback Machine Interview "Vietnamese Mathematician Ngô Bἀo Châu - From A Mathematical Olympiad Medallist to A Fields Medallist" pp. 25–30
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