Li Fanghua
Li Fanghua was a Hong Kong-born Chinese physicist. She was a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, The World Academy of Sciences, and the International Union of Crystallography. She was also the director of Chinese Society of Physics and China Union of Crystallography, and an editor of the Journal of Chinese Electron Microscopy Society, J. Electron Microscopy, Chinese Physics Letter, and Chinese Journal of Physics.
Li won the L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science in 2003. She was fluent in English, French, German, Japanese, and Russian.Biography
Li was born in British Hong Kong on January 6, 1932, with her ancestral home in Deqing County, Guangdong. She had four brothers and one sister. Her father, Li Jiong, was a major general in the National Revolutionary Army. Her mother, Liu Jiqing was a native of Beijing. Li spent her childhood in British Hong Kong, Beijing and Guangzhou.
Li secondary studied at Fu Jen Girls' School and Peidao Private Middle School, then she was accepted to Lingnan Private University. She was a graduate student in physics at Wuhan University. She also graduated from Leningrad University in 1956, where she majored in physics. After graduation, she applied for an internship in the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and studied under.
During the Cultural Revolution, she was sent to the May Seventh Cadre Schools to perform manual labour. She returned to the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1973. From 1982 to 1983, she was a visiting scholar at Osaka University.
She was elected a fellow of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1993 and a fellow of The World Academy of Sciences in 1998. In February 2003, she received the L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science Award.
Li died on January 24, 2020 in Beijing.Personal life
Li was married to fellow physicist Fan Haifu.
