Li-Zhi Fang 方勵之 passed away

[willis]

He was a well known Chinese theoretical astrophysicist. Apart from the June 4th event, being a political activist, one of his important and significant contribution was T3 model in astrophysics. Rest in peace.
http://hk.news.yahoo.com/%E6%96%B9%E5%8 ... 00486.html
http://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-tw/%E6%96%B9 ... 5%E4%B9%8B
http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~fanglz/
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1994PhRvL..73.1882J

[社長]

我九十年代已跟南京大學、紫金山天台及南京光學厰的專家教授們交往，其實比北京的友人還要早，當時大家有一個禁忌就要不要提方勵之，雖然當年國內的天文專業界別才沒多少人，大家都相熟的。

那時候我不時帶大學生到南京上海蘇州考察，有一次也請了當年南大天文系主任方成教授及他的老師來座談，後來他當了院士。