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. Because of his activism, he was expelled from the Communist Party of China in January 1987.
Read more about Fang Lizhi: Early Life, Research in Astrophysics and Cosmology, Political Activism, 1989 Democracy Movement and Exile, Later Life, Death
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