WebbFang Lizhi ( Chinese: 方励之; pinyin: Fāng Lìzhī; 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. [1]