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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. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fang Lizhi has received more than 190,427 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Fang Lizhi is the 308th most popular astronomer (down from 281st in 2019), the 750th most popular biography from China (down from 660th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Chinese Astronomer.

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  • 190k

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  • 49.94

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.37

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.57

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Fang Lizhi ranks 308 out of 531. Before him are Carl Keenan Seyfert, Marguerite Laugier, Nathaniel Bliss, Richard Martin West, Norman Lockyer, and Giorgio Abetti. After him are Daniel Kirkwood, Johann von Lamont, Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, Charles Dillon Perrine, Richard Christopher Carrington, and Edward Sabine.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Fang Lizhi ranks 263. Before him are Troy Donahue, Jan Němec, W. D. Hamilton, Kim Yong-chun, Gary Hart, and Ivo Brešan. After him are Paul Shenar, José Policarpo, Feliciano Rivilla, Klaus Doldinger, Jozef Vengloš, and Edward Feigenbaum. Among people deceased in 2012, Fang Lizhi ranks 197. Before him are Dom Mintoff, Kurt Adolff, Assef Shawkat, Simeon ten Holt, Marvin Hamlisch, and Sergey Kapitsa. After him are Donald "Duck" Dunn, Pierre Sinibaldi, Eugene Polley, Paavo Berglund, George Knobel, and John Keegan.

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In China

Among people born in China, Fang Lizhi ranks 750 out of 1,392. Before him are Chögyam Trungpa (1939), Nie Rongzhen (1899), Tang Jingsong (1841), Fan Bingbing (1981), Zhou Zuoren (1885), and Tan Dun (1957). After him are Sanmao (1943), Han Zheng (1954), Qian Qichen (1928), Wang Jianlin (1954), Harry Wu (1937), and Henry Luce (1898).

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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) and John Dobson (1915).

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