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.
Sri Lanka
Saman Kelegama, was Executive Director of the Institute of Policy Studies (Sri Lanka); economist
Thailand
Phraya Anuman Ratchathon 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
List of Turkish scientists
Vietnam
Hieu Van Le, Vietnamese-born Australian, a former governor of South Australia; economist
Ngo Bao Chau - best known for proving the fundamental lemma for automorphic forms (en). He is the first Vietnamese national to have received the Fields Medal; 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
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