NAN Rendong,a distinguished expert in radio astronomy who is known as the father of the world’s largest radio telescope,died from lung cancer in Boston on September 15,2017 at the age of 72.His untimely passing away was just ten days before his masterpiece,the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope(FAST),which he spent over two decades conceiving and building for the next generation
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