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    Jul 21, 2022 3 minutes

    CRYSTALLOGRAPHER DIES AT 88

    Fan Haifu, physicist and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), passed away from illness on July 8 in Beijing at the age of 88.

    Fan was born in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province. He graduated from Peking University in 1956, where he majored in chemistry. He started his career at the Institute of Physics under CAS in Beijing and became a researcher in 1986.

    His professional achievements contributed to global X-ray crystallography, the experimental science determining the atomic and molecular.

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