# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/fang-lizhi
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:28:45.080Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/fang-lizhi"
name: "Fang Lizhi"
slug: "fang-lizhi"
description: "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 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 He was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1980, but his position was revoked after 1989."
tagline: "Professor of astrophysics; civil rights activist and dissident (1936–2012)"
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birthDate: "1936-02-12"
deathDate: "2012-04-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump