中国科学院院士、宁波诺丁汉大学校长杨福家逝世，享年86岁

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著名核物理学家、教育家、中央文史研究馆馆员、中国科学院院士、复旦大学原校长、宁波诺丁汉大学校长杨福家教授，因病于2022年7月17日在上海逝世，享年86岁。

杨福家院士，祖籍浙江宁波镇海，1936年出生于上海，1958年从复旦大学物理系毕业后留校任教，1963年至1965年担任丹麦哥本哈根尼尔斯·玻尔研究所博士后研究员，回国后在中国建立起第一流的实验室——“基于加速器的原子、原子核物理实验室”,在中国国内开创离子束分析研究领域。1993年杨福家出任复旦大学校长。2001年刚从复旦大学校长卸任两年的杨福家正式担任英国诺丁汉大学校长，成为出任英国著名高校校长的第一位中国人。2004年杨福家推动创办中国第一所中外合作大学——宁波诺丁汉大学，并担任宁波诺丁汉大学首任校长。

杨福家校长历任国内国外知名大学校长多年，对中国高等教育发展和人才培养有深刻见解。他倡导博雅教育理念，曾在多种场合积极建言、著文，推动中国高等教育改革。他曾说：“我有幸当了12年英国诺丁汉大学校长，走访了无数世界高校，逐渐懂得什么叫博雅教育。自然而然的，我也在思考这种优秀的教学体制可否移植到中国来。”

为践行博雅教育理念，杨福家校长身体力行推动创办了宁波诺丁汉大学，开启了中外合作办学的新模式，为中国高校注入新活力。在办学上，杨校长坚持三个原则：一是注重教学质量；二是坚持教育应“点燃学生心中的火种”；三是强调“做人第一，修业第二”。

在杨福家任校长期间，宁波诺丁汉大学在保证高水平教学的前提下稳步前行，历年来培养了众多走向世界舞台的优秀学子。杨校长曾多次表示，许多毕业学生在写给他的信中提到“学校改变了我们的一生”。

在宁波诺丁汉大学这块博雅教育的试验田上，杨福家校长强调要点燃学生心中的“火种”。作为一位先进教育理念的“播火者”，杨福家校长毕生都在用实际行动探索和践行自己的教育理念。他希望在中国的土地上提供高质量的国际化教育，为国家培养未来所需要的高端创新国际化人才。

Yang Fujia, member of the China Central Institute for Culture and History, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, president of University of Nottingham Ningbo China, passed away at age of 86.

Yang Fujia, a renowned nuclear physicist, educator, member of the China Central Institute for Culture and History, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, former president of Fudan University, president of University of Nottingham Ningbo China, passed away in Shanghai on 17 July 2022 due to illness at the age of eighty-six.

Academician Yang Fujia, who’s ancestral home is in Zhenhai, Ningbo in Zhejiang province, was born in Shanghai in 1936. After graduating from the Department of Physics of Fudan University in 1958, he remained at the university to become a teacher. From 1963 to 1965, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark; after returning home to China, he established a first-class, state-of-the-art laboratory - “Accelerator-based Atomic and Nuclear Physics Laboratory”, and created the research field of ion beam analysis in China. In 1993, Yang Fujia became the president of Fudan University. Then, in 2001, two years after stepping down as president of Fudan University, he took on the role of president of the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom, becoming the first ever Chinese national to serve as the president of a famous British university. In 2004, Yang Fujia promoted the establishment of China's first sino-foreign university - University of Nottingham Ningbo China, and served as its first president.

President Yang Fujia has served as the president of well-known universities at home and abroad for many years, and had profound insights into the development of higher education and talent cultivation in China. He advocated the idea of liberal arts education, speaking and writing actively on various occasions to promote the reform of higher education in China. He once said: “I was fortunate enough to be the president of the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom for 12 years. I visited countless universities around the world and gradually understood what liberal arts education is. Naturally, I am also thinking about whether this excellent teaching system can be migrated to China.”

To practice the philosophy of liberal arts education, President Yang Fujia selflessly promoted the establishment of the University of Nottingham Ningbo China, which opened a new model of sino-foreign cooperative education and injected a much desired vitality into Chinese universities. In the management of the university, President Yang Fujia adhered to three principles: first, focus on teaching quality; second, insist that education should "ignite the flame in students' heart"; third, emphasize "human beings first, professionals second."

During the tenure of Yang Fujia's presidency, the University of Nottingham Ningbo China has steadily moved forward on the premise of ensuring high-level teaching quality, and has cultivated abundant outstanding students who have shone across the globe over the years. President Yang Fujia said a number of times that many graduate students mentioned in their letters to him that “the university has changed our lives”.

On the experimental field of liberal arts education at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China, President Yang Fujia emphasized the need to ignite the “flame” in the heart of students. As a “spark-planter” of advanced educational concepts, President Yang Fujia has spent his entire life exploring and practicing his educational philosophy with practical actions. It was his wish to provide high-quality international education in China and cultivate high-end innovative and international talent for the country in the future.

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