File 19 - Election of Sir Nevill Mott as Master

Biochemist & Sinologist (Chinese scholar) . Matriculated, Gonville and Caius College Cambridge, 1935. Fellow, 1924-66 1976-95; President 1959-66, Master 1966-76. Sir William Dunn Reader in Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, 1933-66. Author, Science & Civilisation in China Project. Director, Needham Research Institute, Cambridge, 1976-90.

For further biographical details, see thee obituary of Joseph Needham in The Caian, 1994-5.