Chinese translator of Einstein Xu Liangying dies

BEIJING (AP) — Xu Liangying, a renowned Chinese rights advocate, physicist and translator of Einstein, has died in Beijing. Xu was 92.

Xu’s death on Monday was widely reported on academic discussion boards and confirmed by a doctor reached by phone at Haidian Hospital’s intensive care unit in Beijing’s university district where Xu lived for many years. The doctor declined to be identified by name and no cause of death was given.