Scientists Engineers
Zhang Heng
Zhang Heng (78-139), a native of Nanyang in central China's Henan Province, was a mathematician, astronomer and geographer of the Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220)......
Zu Chongzhi
Zu Chongzhi (425-500), born in Fanyang (now Laiyuan County in Hebei Province), was a great mathematician and astronomer during the North and South Dynasty (220-581)......
Guo Pu
Guo Pu (276-324) was a noted natural historian and also a versatile and prolific writer of the Eastern Jin Dynasty (317-420)......
Hou Ji
Hou Ji, Chinese Prince Millet, was said to be the ancestor of the Western Zhou Dynasty (11 century to 771BC) that followed the Shang Dynasty (17 century to 11 century BC)......
Jia Sixie
Jia Sixie, author of China's first agricultural encyclopedia, was one of the leading agronomists in Chinese history. In the late years of the Northern Wei Dynasty (386-534), he wrote Qimin Yaoshu......
Lei Zu
Sericulture is the technical term for the silk industry in all its forms -- farming, harvesting, spinning, and weaving......
Li Bing
Li Bing, fighter against the "river deity" 2,200 years ago, was a water conservancy expert during the Warring States Period (475-221BC)......
Li Shizhen
Li Shizhen (1518-1593), author of Ben Cao Gang Mu (Compendium of Materia Medica), was a pharmacist and naturalist of the late Ming Dynasty (1368-1644)......
Lu Guimeng
Lu Guimeng, agronomist and poet in the late Tang Dynasty (618-907), was a native of today's Wujiang, East China's Jiangsu Province ......
Shen Nong Shi
Shen Nong Shi, also called Yan Emperor or Lie Shan Shi, was one of the Three Emperors in remote antiquity legends......
Shen Kuo
Shen Kuo was an eminent scientist of the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127)......
Ximen Bao
Ximen Bao, founder of China's first irrigation work, was once a military officer in the Wei State during the Warring States Period (475-221BC)......
Zhan Tianyou
Zhan Tianyou (1861-1919), a national hero for his role in building China's railroad system, was born in 1861 in southern China's Guangdong Province and died in 1919.......
Zhu Shijie
Zhu Shijie (朱世杰 mid-1270s?-1330?) was one of the greatest Chinal Chinese mathematicians......
Xu Guangqi
Born in Shanghai, Xu Guangqi (1562-1633) was a famous scientist at the end of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). In 1600, Xu came across Matteo Ricci (1552-1610), who came from Italy......
Song Yingxing
Song Yingxing, was born in 1587 in Jiangxi Province. He lived in the latter part of China's feudal society when commodity economy began to flourish, and agriculture, handicraft industry and traffic on land and water developed rapidly......
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