Fang Lizhi
Fang Lizhi (; February 12, 1936 – April 6, 2012) 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 Party in January 1987. For his work, Fang was a recipient of the
Robert F Kennedy Human Rights Award in 1989, given each year. He was elected an academician of the
Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1980, but his position was revoked after 1989.
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Fang Lizhi (; February 12, 1936 – April 6, 2012) 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 Party in January 1987. For his work, Fang was a recipient of the Robert F Kennedy Human Rights Award in 1989, given each year. He was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1980, but his position was revoked after 1989.
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