SECTION B CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY

NCUACS 54.3.95/B.1- NCUACS 54.3.95/B.260 DEPARTMENT OF BIOCHEMISTRY

NCUACS 54.3.95/B.261- NCUACS 54.3.95/B.297 UNIVERSITY GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS

NCUACS 54.3.95/B.298- NCUACS 54.3.95/B.368 HISTORY OF SCIENCE COMMITTEE

NCUACS 54.3.95/B.369- NCUACS 54.3.95/B.376 FACULTY BOARD OF ORIENTAL STUDIES

NCUACS 54.3.95/B.377- NCUACS 54.3.95/B.388 GONVILLE AND CAIUS COLLEGE

Needham spent his whole academic career at Cambridge. He was an undergraduate at Gonville and Caius College 1918-1922 and from 1922 to 1924 held a Benn Levy Studentship for postgraduate research under F.G. Hopkins. He was University Demonstrator in Biochemistry 1928-1933 and Sir William Dunn Reader in Biochemistry 1933-1966. Needham became a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College in 1924, and served as Master 1966-1976.

In addition to his membership of the Department of Biochemistry Needham was influential from the mid-1930s in the establishment of the history and philosophy of science as an accepted academic discipline in Cambridge University. He served on the History of Science Lectures Committee and its successors the History of Science Committee and the History and Philosophy of Science Committee. In recognition of his pioneering work on the history and civilisation of China Needham was appointed a member of the Faculty Board of Oriental Languages (later Oriental Studies) in 1949.