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This is a list of scientists from Asia.
Afghanistan
- Pages appear in Category:Afghan scientists
Armenia
- Boris Babaian[1][2][3][4][5] - he got the awards (from the Soviet Union): the USSR State Prize for his achievements in 1974 in the field of computer-aided design, and the Lenin Prize in 1987 for the Elbrus-2 supercomputer design. Since 1984, he has been a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (later - Russian Academy of Sciences)
- Yuri Oganessian - oganesson is named after him; he is one of the discoverers of that element (Chemistry)
Azerbaijan
- Vafa Guluzade - he was a Foreign Policy State Advisor for Azerbaijan President; the political scientist died in 2015.
- Ayaz Mutallibov, he was the first president of Azerbaijan; chemist
- Lotfi A. Zadeh - pioneer (or one of the earliest scientists) of fuzzy logic; computer scientist, electrical engineer, mathematician; d. in 2017
Bangladesh
- Shegufta Bakht Chaudhuri, was Governor of Bangladesh Bank (central bank of Bangladesh); economist
- Muhammad Qudrat-i-Khuda, president of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences; chemist
- Muhammed Zafar Iqbal - he has a Bangladesh National Film Awards for Best Story; he is a scholar of engineering and computer science.
- Taslima Nasrin, physician, writer
China
Main page: List of Chinese scientists
Cyprus
Georgia
- Tamaz V. Gamkrelidze[6][7][8] was a member of the Parliament of Georgia; assyriologist (and therefore a linguist)
- Jamshid Giunashvili[9] - he was a linguist (Iranologist); died in 2017
India
Main page: List of Indian scientists
Indonesia
- Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie - a former president of Indonesia; aerospace engineering scientist
- Hary Gunarto, computer scientist
- J. B. Sumarlin, was minister of finance; economist
Iran
Main page: List of Iranian scientists
Iraq
- Ahmed Chalabi, was Deputy prime minister; mathematician
- Sinan Al Shabibi, was the governor of the Central Bank of Iraq
Israel
- Pages appear in Category:Israeli scientists
- Yehoshua Matza; economist
Japan
Main page: List of Japanese scientists
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
- Askar Akayev - he is a former president of Kyrgyzstan; he is a natural scientist
- Myrzageldy Kemel, was a member of Mazhilis; economist
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
- Hla Myint, he was a pioneer of the idea that export-orientation is one of the most useful "engine of growth".[16][17][18]; economist
- Tuang Za Khai, writer, biologist (Botany), born 1986
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
Main page: List of Filipino scientists
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
- Hieu Van Le, Vietnamese-born Australian, a former governor of South Australia; economist
- Ngô Bảo Châu - best known for proving the fundamental lemma for automorphic forms (en). He is the first Vietnamese national to have received the Fields Medal;[24][25][26][27][28] mathematician
Related pages
- List of scientists from Africa
- List of scientists from Europe
- List of scientists from North America
- List of scientists from Oceania
- List of scientists from South America
- List of women scientists from Asia
References
- ↑ Elbrus E2K. Retrieved 2017-09-17.
- ↑ Boris A. Babayan Intel Fellow, Software and Solutions Group. Director, Architecture
- ↑ Бабаян Борис Арташесович на IT-VIP. www.it-vip.ru.
- ↑ Babayan receives Intel Fellow title (in Russian). Retrieved 2021-01-23.
- ↑ The Elbrus-2: a Soviet-era high performance computer – history of the Elbrus project with an 18-minute video interview from the Computer History Museum oral history collection
- ↑ Georgian Academy of Sciences (GAS). Retrieved 2017-09-10.
- ↑ Tbilisi State University
- ↑ Home Page of Tamaz Gamkrelidze (2015-07-05 not accessible)
- ↑ ფერეიიდანი, ჯემშიდ გიუნაშვილი - მეგობრობის მაცნე Archived 2015-04-02 at the Wayback Machine (in Georgian)
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 INFORM.KZ. Zhautykov and World Math Olympiads bring together most talented students: academician A.Dzhumadildayev. www.inform.kz (14 January 2010).[dead link]
- ↑ 51st IMO: Three gold, two silver medals - proof of domestic educational system's success.
- ↑ ErrorPage. www.kbtu.kz. Retrieved 2019-02-15.
- ↑ Абдулин А. А. Выдающийся ученый, организатор науки, общественный деятель // Вестник РАН. 1999. № 3. С. 258—230.
- ↑ Unesco.. Информация о К. И. Сатпаеве на сайте Мемореального музея (in ru). Retrieved 2009-12-28.
- ↑ Kimbrough, Liz (2013-08-06). Scientists discover new flying mammal in bushmeat market. Mongabay. https://news.mongabay.com/2013/08/scientists-discover-new-flying-mammal-in-bushmeat-market/. Retrieved 2016-08-12.
- ↑ A Vision and A Strategy : ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF BURMA. Burmalibrary.org. Retrieved 2017-03-15.
- ↑ HLA Myint. homepage.newschool.edu. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
- ↑ Kaung, Kyi May, (1995) Theories, Paradigms, or Models in Burma Studies, Asian Survey. Vol. 35, No. 11 (Nov.), pp. 1030–1041
- ↑ Patterson, Robbie (24 October 2014). "World-first dead heart transplant at Sydney's St Vincent's Hospital a game changer". News.com.au (News Limited). http://www.news.com.au/national/worldfirst-dead-heart-transplant-at-sydneys-st-vincents-hospital-a-game-changer/story-e6frfkp9-1227099798041. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
- ↑ Yanghee Choi - SNU Computer Science and Engineering. cse.snu.ac.kr.
- ↑ Mahidol University – Literature. Retrieved 2017-09-17.
- ↑ Ghosts of Thai folklore. Retrieved 2017-09-17.
- ↑ Google. www.google.com.
- ↑ 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."
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Hàm Châu. Hiện tượng Ngô Bảo Châu (2005-11-18)Tuổi trẻ Online. Retrieved 2011-10-09.
- ↑ K.Hưng (2005-12-29). 10 sự kiện khoa học — công nghệ nổi bật năm 2005. Tuổi trẻ Online. http://tuoitre.com.vn/Tianyon/Index.aspx?ArticleID=116027&ChannelID=17. Retrieved 2010-12-19.
- ↑ Hạ Anh & Hương Giang, "GS Griffiths: 'Trong giới Toán học, anh Châu vẫn là người Việt'", Vietnamnet. Retrieved 2010-8-19.