China Vitae

Biography

Fang Shouxian, male, Han nationality, is a native of Shanghai. He graduated from Fudan University in 1955.

Fang began his career in the early 1960s by discovering a nonisochronous phenomenon in isochronous cyclotrons due to free oscillation. He then participated in the design of a new heavy current antiproton accumulator ring, the focusing mechanism, and, from 1982 to 1983, he developed a dispersion removal method for small and medium circular accelerators in CERN.

From 1983 to 1986, Fang participated in the design of the BEPC storage ring and improved the conceptual design. Fang also directed the entire BEPC construction, operation, and improvements and put it into operation on time, delivering the leading overall performance of machines in the same energy region all around the world.

Fang is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.