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Fang Lizhi
Physicist, Author
1936 – 2012
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Who was Fang Lizhi?
Fang Lizhi was a Chinese astrophysicist, vice-president of the University of Science and Technology of China, and activist whose liberal ideas inspired the pro-democracy student movement of 1986–87 and, finally, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. Because of his activism, he was expelled from the Communist Party of China in January 1987.
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- Born
- Feb 12, 1936
Beijing - Also known as
- Lizhi. Fang
- Spouses
- Li Shuxian
(1961 - )
- Li Shuxian
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Republic of China
- China
- Profession
- Education
- Peking University
Physics
(1952 - )
- Peking University
- Employment
- University of Arizona
- Died
- Apr 6, 2012
Tucson
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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