Talk:List of scientists from Asia

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Afghanistan

Name	Field	Known for	Most noted award/fellowship		Year of death	Picture
Mohammad Shafiq Hamdam	Linguistics, Radiology	political activist, and chairman of the Afghan Anti-Corruption Network (AACN).				File:Dr. Mohammad Shafiq Hamdam.jpg
M. Ishaq Nadiri	Economy	He is a signatory (or one of the important persons, that signed the important papers) of the 2001 Bonn meetings where the interim government of Afghanistan was created
Zemaryalai Tarzi	Archaeology	he directed the excavations in Bamiyan and Hadda on the sites of Tape Shotor and Tape Tope Kalan; he is an archaeologist.

Armenia

• Artem Alikhanian (known as the "father of Armenian physics") Test— Preceding unsigned comment added by 223.24.188.190 (talk • contribs) 08:21, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

• 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)

Azerbaijan

• Ali Abbasov - a former Minister of Communications and Information Technologies; he is a full member of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
• Hasan Abdullayev - president of the National Academy of Sciences of the Azerbaijan SSR; physicist, mathematician; died in 1993

Bangladesh

• Abul Hussam - he is the inventor of the Sono arsenic filter; chemist

• Muhammad Qudrat-i-Khuda - chief of Pakistan Academy of Sciences; the organic chemist died in 1977

Georgia

• Malkhaz Abdushelishvili - he was chosen as academician of the Georgian Academy of Sciences; died 1998

Indonesia

• Herman Johannes (a former Minister for Public Works and Energy)

Kazakhstan

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• Ken Alibek (or Kanatjan Alibekov) - "Chief Scientist at Biopreparat (en) from 1987 to 1992"; he is a physicist

• Alikhan Bukeikhanov - Prime Minister of the Alash Autonomy (made from part of the Russian Empire); economist; he died in 1937

• 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.

Kyrgyzstan

• Askar Akayev - he is a former president of Kyrgyzstan; he is a natural scientist.
• Kasym Tynystanov - he was the first Minister of Education of the Kyrgyz Republic; linguist; he died in 1938

Laos

• Daosavanh Sanamxay - the discoverer of the Laotian giant flying squirrel(en); biologist
• Bountiem Phissamay. He is (as of 2010) Minister, Head of the Science, Technology and Environment Organisation of Laos

Nepal

• Gehendra Shumsher (He is generally thought of as the first scientist of 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

• Kim Bong-han
• Kyong Wonha - he is a nuclear scientist who may have been working for the North Korean nuclear program. He defected in 2002, media said.

• Ri Sung-gi (He is the inventor of Vinalon, and he got the Lenin Prize)

South Korea

• Hwang Woo-suk - he was convicted of bioethical violations and was punished with a suspended prison sentence [which means that he did not automatically have go go to prison] In 2006 he said he had faked scientific findings. - he is a scientist within Theriogenology (en), biotechnology.

• Yanghee Choi - he is a former minister of Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning; he is a computer scientist.

Thailand

• Phraya Anuman Ratchathon

- he was the first Thai scholar to conduct a serious study of Thai folkloristics, taking notes on the nocturnal village spirits of Thai folklore; the anthropologist and ethnographer died in 1969

Vietnam

• Bùi Tường Phong - he was the inventor of the Phong reflection model (en) and the Phong shading interpolation method, techniques widely used in computer graphics; the computer scientist died in 1975.

• Bửu Hội - the prince was a diplomat and medical researcher (of cancer); also known as Nguyễn Phúc Bửu Hội.

• Đái Duy Ban - molecular biologist

• Đàm Thanh Sơn - member of National Academy of Sciences (in the U.S.); he is a theoretical physicist

• Ngô Văn Doanh - a writer about the Champa culture in the Central Highlands (Tay Nguyen); archaeologist
• Hà Đình Đức - known for describing a controversial taxon of the Hoan Kiem turtle (en); biologist

• Duy-Loan Le - she is one of the designers of the fastest digital signal processor (DSP) chip; in 2004, Guinness World Records said the chip was the fastesT; she is a scientist in the field of electrical engineering.

• Jane Luu - she got the award, the Kavli Prize (shared with two others) for 2012 “for discovering and characterizing the Kuiper Belt and its largest members ..."; she is an astronomer.

• 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; mathematician

• Nam-Trung Nguyen - researcher of microfluidics and nanofluidics, both within engineering

• Nguyễn Xuân Vinh - he won the Dirk Brouwer Award (en), given by the American Astronautical Society; he is an aerospace engineer.

• Phạm Thị Trân Châu - she is a former representative at the National Assembly of Vietnam; she is a biochemist.

• Phan Lương Cầm - she is widow of a former Vietnamese prime minister, Võ Văn Kiệt; she is a chemist.

• Hoang Thi Than - she is the first female Vietnamese geological engineer (en) and archeologist.

• Trần Đại Nghĩa - he was elected as a member of USSR Academy of Sciences; scientist within engineering

• Minh Quang Tran - he was nominated Leader of EFDA (the European Fusion Development Agreement); physicist

• Phạm Huy Thông - he was a representative at two National Assemblies; the archaeologist died in 1988.

• Trịnh Xuân Thuận - he got the awards, the Kalinga Prize and Prix mondial Cino Del Duca; he is an astrophysicist.

• Tuan Vo-Dinh - he has been ranked No. 43 on a list of the world's top 100 living geniuses in a survey conducted by Creators Synectics, a global consultants firm; biologist

• Võ Quý - he got the award, the Blue Planet Prize (en) (from International Hydropower Association); the ornithologist died in 2017.

• Van H. Vu or Vũ Hà Văn - he got the awards, the Pólya Prize and the Fulkerson Prize; mathematician Sju hav (talk) 18:37, 20 September 2017 (UTC)

Category (and before the article maybe gets deleted)

• Scientists from Indonesia. Anyone might want to create that category (because now one "has 3 scientists in one place" [my words]). 89.8.95.63 (talk) 13:13, 16 April 2022 (UTC)
• Scientists from Bangladesh - the same goes for them. 89.8.95.63 (talk) 13:18, 16 April 2022 (UTC)
• Scientists from Azerbaijan - the same goes for them. 89.8.95.63 (talk) 13:20, 16 April 2022 (UTC)

If/when relevant articles get deleted

The following information should then maybe be looked at: (Afghanistan), Abdul Karim Mustaghni, was Defense Minister of Afghanistan; He was a scientist; He died in 2004 ,Nake M. Kamrany, economist, born 1934 ,Ashraf Ghani, a former president of Afghanistan; anthropologist, born 1949. 89.8.95.63 (talk) 16:55, 16 April 2022 (UTC)