Li Zhi-Fang 
        
				
					
					
						
						Li Zhi-Fang 
	
					    
Department of Respiratory Medicine, The first hospital of Shanxi medical university, China                            
                            
						
					 
				 
								Biography
				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. Because of his activism, he was expelled from the Communist Party of China in January 1987.