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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. Fang was considered as one of the leaders of the New Enlightenment in the 1980s. Because of his activism, he was expelled from the Chinese Communist…
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science · Political dissident and astrophysicist · physicist · human rights defender · university teacher · astrophysicist · also Fang Lizhi, Wang Yunran, Lizhi
Born 12 February 1936 · Died 6 April 2012 · Q445635
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2024· 1 entry
The Scientist: Fang Lizhi: Science in the Party's Shadow
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2016· 1 entry
Physics World: Fang Lizhi, physicist and dissident
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2012· 2 entries
Yahoo: Fang Lizhi, Who Inspired Chinese Dissidents, Dies
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Died 2012-04-06.
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1996· 1 entry
Won Dwight Nicholson Medal for Outreach (1996).
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1991· 2 entries
Awarded Freedom Award (1991).
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Gave a conference on the issue of Tibet in New York, one of the first open dialogues between Chinese and Tibetans
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1989· 2 entries
Awarded Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award (1989).
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The day after the government cracked down on the Tiananmen Square protests, Fang and Li sought asylum at the U
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1987· 1 entry
Introduced basic cosmological ideas, and influenced a large number of physics and astronomy students growing up in the 1980s in China
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1985· 1 entry
And organized the International Astronomical Union conference IAU-124 on "Observational Cosmology" in Beijing in 1986
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1984· 1 entry
Fang was appointed as the vice president of the USTC under president Guan Weiyan
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1972· 1 entry
The worst chaos of the Cultural Revolution was over and scientific research resumed
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1971· 1 entry
Along with a number of other faculty members, he was assigned to do labour work in a brick factory, which produced the bricks for constructing the new USTC campus buildings
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1969· 2 entries
Fang, along with other "problematic members" of the faculty, were sent to do hard labour for "re-education by the worker class" in a coal mine
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Along with other universities and research institutes, USTC was ordered to be evacuated out of Beijing, ostensibly in anticipation of an impending invasion by the Soviet Union
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1961· 1 entry
Married Li, who remained a faculty member of Peking University
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1957· 1 entry
During the Hundred Flowers Campaign, people were strongly encouraged by the CCP to openly express their opinions and criticisms
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1952· 1 entry
Enrolled in the Physics Department at Peking University, where he met his future wife, Li Shuxian (李淑娴)
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1948· 1 entry
A year before the People's Liberation Army took over the city, as a student of the Beijing No
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1936· 1 entry
Born 1936-02-12.
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