李約瑟（Joseph Needham）

1942年到1946年，皇家學會會員李約瑟（Joseph Needham）獲任命為英國駐華科學使節團團長，並且開始撰寫《中國之科學與文明》（Science and Civilisation in China）巨著，占去他餘生的四十年寫成。他積極推動「國際科學合作服務」，四處奔走遊說，終於促使自然科學納入聯合國教科文組織（United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation；UNESCO）的業務範圍。（Shortly afterwards, from 1942 to 1946, Joseph Needham FRS was appointed head of the British Scientific Mission in China, from where he started work on the monumental multi-volume ‘Science and Civilisation in China’, which occupied the remaining forty years of his life. He was active in promoting an ‘International Science Co-operation Service’, and his lobbying led to the incor-poration of natural sciences within the mandate of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO).）（摘自New frontiers in
science diplomacy）