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Fang Lizhi
Professor of astrophysics; civil rights activist and dissident.
Born February 12th, 1936 in Beijing.
Died April 6th, 2012 at 76 years old in Tucson (disease). [ref]
Occupations
astrophysicist, human rights activist, physicist, university teacher
Wikipedia
It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but retire a little from sight and afterwards return again. Ralph Waldo Emerson