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Fang Lizhi

1936 - 2012

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Fang Lizhi (Chinese: 方励之; pinyin: Fāng Lìzhī; 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fang Lizhi has received more than 202,899 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Fang Lizhi is the 324th most popular astronomer (down from 308th in 2019), the 801st most popular biography from China (down from 747th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Chinese Astronomer.

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  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.33

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.69

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Fang Lizhi ranks 324 out of 644. Before him are Sylvain Arend, Nils Christoffer Dunér, Ercole Dembowski, Maarten Schmidt, Herbert Hall Turner, and Eise Eisinga. After him are David H. Levy, Félix Tisserand, Christine Kirch, Joseph Helffrich, Jing Fang, and Alvan Clark.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Fang Lizhi ranks 272. Before him are Antonin Scalia, Richard E. Stearns, August Schellenberg, Kigeli V of Rwanda, Mustafa Ould Salek, and Jan Tříska. After him are Natalya Gorbanevskaya, Gábor Szabó, Kim Yong-chun, Jean-Pierre Changeux, Pavol Molnár, and Bobby Seale. Among people deceased in 2012, Fang Lizhi ranks 202. Before him are Fiorenzo Magni, Luis Alberto Spinetta, Roald Aas, Jon Finch, Mustafa Ould Salek, and Bob Anderson. After him are Shukri Ghanem, Ramaz Shengelia, Marvin Hamlisch, Ann Rutherford, Dom Mintoff, and Paavo Berglund.

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In China

Among people born in China, Fang Lizhi ranks 801 out of 1,610. Before him are Gordon Liu (1951), Dai Jin (1388), Ma Jun (200), Li Li-hua (1924), Leon Lai (1966), and Chen Hongshou (1598). After him are Fou Ts'ong (1934), Shannon Lucid (1943), Qian Qichen (1928), Lou Tseng-Tsiang (1871), Wang Changling (698), and Jing Fang (-78).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In China

Among astronomers born in China, Fang Lizhi ranks 2. Before him are Gan De (-400). After him are Jing Fang (-78), Frank Shu (1943), and John Dobson (1915).

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