Fang Lizhi, Chinese astrophysicist and academic (born 1936)

Fang Lizhi

Political dissident and astrophysicist

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. Fang was considered as one…