Famed English professor dies aged 99

Li Pei, a linguist and wife of Guo Yonghuai, one of the founding fathers of China's atomic bomb, hydrogen bomb and satellite, passed away in Beijing on Thursday, according to the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.

The university, where Li served as a professor of English, released an obituary on Thursday, saying that Li, 99, died of disease in the early morning.

Born in Jiangsu province on Dec 20, 1917, Li was admitted by Peking University to study economics in 1936. She then studied at Cornell University in the United States in 1947.