Abstract: Professor Sun Panshou, famous urban and population geographer, member of the Special Commission of Economic Geography,Geographical Society of China, Council member of Beijing Urban Economic Society and senior researcher of the Institute of Geography, Academia Sinica,died of illness in Beijing on June 14, 1985 at the age of 69.Prof.Sun was born in a poor family on Oct.8, 1916 in Yixing county, Jiangsu province.He graduated and received his B.A.degree from the Department of History and Geography, Zhejing University in 1942. In his Iong course of scientific reserch,Sun summed up the experiences of both Chinese anh foreign on the base of productive practices, and published a number of articles of high academic level. He went deep into urdan and population geography as well as economic geography, and had profounb influence in these fields.Prof.Sun worked hard bur never bothered about personal fame and gain. He devoted all his life to the cause of Chinese geography. His respectable merirs and dedicating spirits are worthy memorizing and learning for ever.