To mark the one year anniversary of the passing of former Chancellor Professor Yang Fujia, colleagues and workmates are planning an online public dialogue and remembrance on Thursday 20 July 2023.

A renowned nuclear physicist, professor Fujia became Nottingham’s sixth Chancellor in 2001, the first time that a Chinese academic had held the role in a UK university. In 2004 along with the then Vice-Chancellor Colin Campbell and Madame Xu Yafen he helped to establish UNNC, the first Sino-foreign university in China.

Leading the event will be colleagues and family members:

Joseph Hamilton
Landon C. Garland Distinguished Professor of Physics, Emeritus, Vanderbilt University, Professor Hamilton first interacted with Fuia in the early 70’s, even before China’s “Reform and Openness” era was unveiled in 1977. He and Professor Yang wrote a highly publicised book entitled ‘Modern Atomic and Nuclear Physics”. It is one of the few, if not unique, textbooks co-authored by two distinguished scientists from the United States and China respectively.

Da Hsuan Feng
Former M Russell Wehr Professor of Physics, Drexel University, Professor Feng first met Fujia in 1979 in the Neils Bohr Institute in Copenhagen. They became and remained close friends since that meeting.

Yongnian Sun
Professor Fujia’s son-in-law got his BS in Genetics from Fudan University, Shanghai, and his PhD in Microbiology and Immunology from the University of Rochester, New York. He went to University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and then moved with this mentor Gary Nabel to NIH for his postdoctoral training.

The online remembrance will take place on Thursday 20 July 2023, from 7am (CST), 8am (EST), 8pm (China Standard).

People can take part online using the details below:

Zoom link to join – https://vanderbilt.zoom.us/j/96397066567?pwd=eFZqMDYxYnR5a3FZdHNBeFRQOXpwZZ09
Meeting ID: 96397066567