Vietnam's scientists

Prof. Dang Hanh De – “A gifted scalpel” of cardiovascular Surgery in Vietnam   (13/04/2012)

When the country jubilantly welcomed the Capital Liberation Day (October 10th, 1954), this Hanoi boy eagerly attended the University of Medicine, with the hope of saving people’s lives. In the late 1959, when Prof. Libov led a Soviet expert team to Vietnam to help us with cardiac surgery, as a student, he was assigned to study and work at the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, in Vietnam-Germany Hospital. It was a big fortune that during the first year after graduation, he had opportunities to assist Prof. Ton That Tung, a well-known surgeon in Vietnam and in the world.

100 years birth anniversary of the late Minister of Health Pham Ngoc Thach: A typical Vietnamese patriotic intellectual   (07/09/2009)
	To celebrate the 100 years’ birth anniversary of the late Minister of Health Pham Ngoc Thach (May 17th) and 40 years of the day he had sacrificed his life on the fierce southern battlefront, we think of the merits from a brilliant minister, a typical patriotic intellectual of the nation.

Vu Tuyen Hoang: Great intellect – Passionate love   (20/04/2009)

“In our life, there exist two kinds of eternal youthfulness being great intellect and passionate love”. In his diary, Professor - Academician Vu Tuyen Hoang had reserved a full page for carefully writing the a.m lines. It seems that such idea is an important – very important precept versus the great scientist of the nation. And his life is a magnificent demoustration of the precept he heartily devoted to.

General Hoang Minh Thao: The talented military, scientists   (09/01/2009)
	In September 8th 2008, the talented, virtuous, incorruptible general, the professor, people’s teacher Hoang Minh Thao had expired at the military 108 (Ha Noi). For remembering him, we hereinunder introduce an article about him from the author Vu Cao Phan.

Scientific imprint by Vu Tuyen Hoang   (29/08/2008)
	The laboratory of the Hanoi Agriculture University still preserve sample pattern of “summer rice shifted to winter rice” since over 40 years previously, the first ever imprint by Prof. Vu Tuyen Hoang in his impressive scientific productions.

Professor, Academician Nguyễn Văn Hiệu: Audacious, passionate in working for great objectives   (29/08/2008)
	Prof. Acad. Nguyễn Văn Hiệu belongs to the generation of top ranked scientists of the Vietnamese science. He had devoted all his life for the cause of scientific research. He is also a fervent lecturer at university, always tossing and turning to seek solutions for the development of the national science and education.

Farewell to a personage devoted all his life to e cherish hope   (28/04/2008)

That is a cherish hope of a personage willing to put his knowledge in the service of the nation. The unexpected departure of Professor, Academician Vu Tuyen Hoang had caused vivid emotion for many peoples.

Having expired, an ardent flame on the biological fields   (20/03/2008)
	He had reached his scientific fame apogee with the academician title, but I always see he is still bending his back on dry rice fields or on flooded summer rice, ploughing, planting, toiling with farmers. If ever he didn’t share a life of toil and moil with poor peasants, for sure there shall not be rice varieties with plain appellation…

Looking toward mass of white cloud Thoughtfully gazing off with blue eyes (*)   (20/03/2008)
	The plain yet abstruse learning, talented people, had gone forever. What he just entrusted in this world, may be always the tender, affectionate, cheerish feelings as the verses he had written: “The past melancholic traits had been vanished away; It only remain your smiling lips very radiant and gay…”

High flying for farther dreaming and land improving   (14/11/2007)
	The original thinking way by Professor Academician Vu Tuyen Hoang, called as a style or a methodology is not entirely accurate, because it appears to be his innermost raison d’être. Following are some tales about his personality, for illustrating the quintessence of a scientific – artist man inside him.

Talking session about life and works of the late Prof. Nguyen Xien   (19/08/2007)

On the occasion for commemorating the hundredth birthday of late Prof. Nguyen Xien in July 26th 2007, at Hanoi, the Vietnam Union of S&T Associations (VUSTA) had organised a talking session with the a.m. topic. Participants to the talking session comprised many senior scientists, politicians, culturists as well as students, relatives of the late Prof. Nguyen Xien. Prof. Acad. Vu Tuyen Hoang – VUSTA Chairman and Prof. Phan Huy Le, Chairman of Vietnam History Science Association, co-presided over the talking session.

Remembering the late Prof. Dr. Nguyen Van Truong: Lesson from an ecovillage   (17/08/2007)

Recollecting the first days, not a few high-ranking scientists were perplexed: “Very hard”. But the success of the Trieu Van ecovillage was a great turning point, a basis for the ecological Economy Institute to be self confident in developing ecovillages on the ecological sub-systems of sandy hill areas. At this coastal sandy hill of the central part - one from 12 ecovillages had been successfully built scatteredly all over the northern region and central part, with technical solutions being digging canals, embanking soil, creating elevated parcels for planting sea pines and wattle varieties. After a year, various plants had grown up, spread shades and shed leaves for engendering humus; sweet potatoes, manioc, rhynchosia shall grow luxuriantly. Especially, in this sandy land, there are underground, shallow water sources, so farmers could dig small ponds to retain water for maize, bean, millet, peanut, sesame planting.

Ten languages in one scientist   (12/06/2007)

After Truong Vinh Ky (a journalist, translater in early XX century) it is safe to say that Professor Phan Ngoc is the second person in Vietnam with a foreign language fund second to nobody. He translated Hegel Aesthetics from German original; Greek Mythology from Grecian original; Spartacus from Italian original; War and peace by Lev Tolstoy from Russian original; History / Annals from Chinese original; Shakespeare from English original... With ten languages, during some dozens of past years, Prof. Phan Ngoc has silently worked under the pen name Nhu Thanh. His collection of works on Vietnamese culture had been awarded the State Prize in 2000.

Professor - Academician Tran Huy Lieu, the founder of the Vietnam Association of History Science   (12/06/2007)

The late Professor - Academician Tran Huy Lieu was a patriot, revolutionary intellectual, devoting all his life in various, hectic activities on many fields. He was a journalist, a poet, a communist fighter, a revolutionary combatant with many important contributions in the August Revolution 1945, in building and defending the young revolutionary administrative power since 1945. He had written the historic national Call for General Uprising 1945, and was the first ever Minister of Information - Propaganda in the Government of the Vietnam Independent Nation.

Professor - Academician Tran Huy Lieu, the founder of the Vietnam Association of History Science   (12/06/2007)

The late Professor - Academician Tran Huy Lieu was a patriot, revolutionary intellectual, devoting all his life in various, hectic activities on many fields. He was a journalist, a poet, a communist fighter, a revolutionary combatant with many important contributions in the August Revolution 1945, in building and defending the young revolutionary administrative power since 1945. He had written the historic national Call for General Uprising 1945, and was the first ever Minister of Information - Propaganda in the Government of the Vietnam Independent Nation.

Professor Academician Vu Tuyen Hoang: A scientist entirely devoted to farmers   (06/04/2007)

Prof. Acad. Vu Tuyen Hoang is a reputed scientist nationwide and world wide, everybody got to know him as a top ranked scientist in agriculture. Our national agriculture’s achievements of today are largely due to the efficient contribution of scientists like him.

Nguyen Khac Vien: a double - rationalist Man *   (06/04/2007)

Just like an emigrant bird, exactly at late autumn, early winter, Dr. Nguyen Khac Vien leaves Hanoi for Saigon. That year"s winter, abnormally, his usual trip did not occur, and in the meantime, at the house No 8 Nguyen Che Nghia (Hanoi) he was lying, breathing feebly, peacefully as waiting for a fatal railway trip he understood more than anyone.

Nguyen Truong To: an ardent patriot, an erudite scholar, an encyclopaedic, solitary counsellor an indefatigable fighter in the XIXth century…   (06/04/2007)

In 1972, when assigned by the Academician Tran Dai Nghia, then President of the State Commission for Construction, to study on economic infrastructure building in South Vietnam, for the cause of national recovery and development after the re-unification of the country, I had come to meet Professor Nguyen Lan, author of a book about Nguyen Truong To and having spent this book’s emoluments to build the abandoned tomb of Nguyen Truong To at the latter’s birth place, in Nghe An.

Professor Nguyen Van Dao – Talented and virtuous scientist   (30/01/2007)
	He was born in August 10th 1937 at Chi Tien commune, Thanh Ba district, Phu Tho province, died in December 11th 2006, at age 70.

A hard time traveller   (30/01/2007)

Prof. Tran Duc Thao, born September 26th 1917 in Tu Son, Bac Ninh, died at Paris on April 24th 1993 by a serious descese in a working trip abroad. Graduated as an assistant professor of first class in France at 26 (1942), he was considered as a Top ranked philosopher of the century. His scientific works “Method of existentialism of Husserl (1942); Existentialism and dialectic materialism (1952); studies on the origin of languages and ideologies (1973); Man problem and doctrine of apersonnality (1988), had been published in some countries and highly appreciated.