List of scientists from Asia

This is a list of scientists from Asia.
Afghanistan
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Armenia
Boris Babaian - 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.
China
Cyprus
Christopher A. Pissarides, he has a Nobel Prize; economist
Georgia
Tamaz V. Gamkrelidze was a member of the Parliament of Georgia; assyriologist (and therefore a linguist)
Jamshid Giunashvili - he was a linguist (Iranologist); died in 2017
India
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
Iraq
Ahmed Chalabi, was Deputy prime minister; mathematician
Sinan Al Shabibi, was the governor of the Central Bank of Iraq
Israel
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Yehoshua Matza; economist
Ida Nudel; economist
Japan
Kazakhstan
Serikbolsyn Abdildin, chairman of the Supreme Council of Kazakhstan; economist
Askar Dzhumadildayev - member of the Kazakhstan National Academy of Science. 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.
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); 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".; economist
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; 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; he is a computer scientist.