Fan Haifu | |
Native Name: | 范海福 |
Native Name Lang: | zh |
Birth Date: | 15 August 1933 |
Birth Place: | Guangzhou, Guangdong, China |
Death Place: | Beijing, China |
Education: | Guangdong Experimental High School[1] |
Alma Mater: | Peking University |
Fields: | Crystallography |
Workplaces: | Chinese Academy of Sciences The World Academy of Sciences |
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Spouse: | Li Fanghua |
Fan Haifu (; 15 August 1933 – 8 July 2022)[2] was a Chinese crystallographer, physicist, and writer. He was a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and The World Academy of Sciences.[3]
Fan was born and raised in Guangzhou, Guangdong, during the Republic of China. He secondary studied at Guangdong Experimental High School .[4] He graduated from Peking University in 1956, where he majored in chemistry. He studied chemistry and physics under Tang Youqi, Fu Ying, Xu Guangxian, Zhou Guangzhao, Chen Shaoli, and Wu Qianzhang .[4] After graduation, he applied for an internship in the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and became a professor at University of Science and Technology of China and Sun Yat-sen University.
He was elected a fellow of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1991 and a fellow of the World Academy of Sciences in 2000. He is also a recipient of the 1996 TWAS Prize.[5]
Fan married Li Fanghua, she was also a Chinese physicist.[6]