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This is a list of notable Chinese scientists.. Ba Denian [1]; Cai Xitao; T. T. Chang; JS Chiao; Chang Chi-yun; Chao Yuen Ren; Chen Hang; Chen Xing; Chen Ziyuan; Chien Wei-zang; Coching Chu
The following is a list of the Four Great Inventions—as designated by Joseph Needham (1900–1995), a British scientist, author and sinologist known for his research on the history of Chinese science and technology.
Chien-Shiung Wu in 1958. Asian Americans have made many notable contributions to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields.. Chien-Shiung Wu was known to many scientists as the "First Lady of Physics" and played a pivotal role in experimentally demonstrating the violation of the law of conservation of parity in the field of particle physics.
Asians have been the recipients of all six award categories: Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace, and Economics. The first Asian recipient, Rabindranath Tagore, was awarded the Literature Prize in 1913. In 1930, C. V. Raman became the first Asian recipient of a Nobel Prize in one of the sciences. The most Nobel Prizes ...
List of Chinese scientists; I. List of contemporary Iranian scientists, scholars, and engineers; List of pre-modern Iranian scientists and scholars; K.
Chinese inventions (39 C, 287 P) E. Egyptian inventions (9 C, 78 P) Emirati inventions (1 C, 5 P) H. Hong Kong inventions (2 C, 2 P) I. Indian inventions (6 C, 105 P)
A Chinese work from the 3rd century BCE mentions: "Foreigners wear it [diamond] in the belief that it can ward off evil influences". [224] The Chinese, who did not find diamonds in their country, initially used diamonds as a "jade cutting knife" instead of as a jewel. [224]
Aside from many original inventions, the Chinese were also early original pioneers in the discovery of natural phenomena which can be found in the human body, the environment of the world, and the immediate Solar System. They also discovered many concepts in mathematics. The list below contains discoveries which found their origins in China.