Trinh Xuan Thuan
Trinh Xuan Thuan | |
|---|---|
 Trịnh Xuân Thuận in 2015 | |
| Born | Trịnh Xuân Thuận August 20, 1948[1] |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | California Institute of Technology (BS) Princeton University (PhD)[1] |
| Known for | Research in galaxy formation Author of popular books[1] |
| Awards | Kalinga Prize (2009) Prix mondial Cino Del Duca (2012) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Astrophysics |
| Institutions | University of Virginia |
| Doctoral advisor | Lyman Spitzer[1] |
Trịnh Xuân Thuận (born August 20, 1948) is a Vietnamese-American astrophysicist.
Biography
[edit]Trịnh Xuân Thuận was born in Hanoi, Vietnam. He completed his B.S. at the California Institute of Technology, and his Ph.D. at Princeton University. He has taught astronomy at the University of Virginia, where he is a professor, since 1976, and is also a research associate at the Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris. He was a founding member of the International Society for Science and Religion.
Thuận was the recipient of UNESCO's Kalinga Prize in 2009 for his work in popularizing science. He received the Kalinga chair award at the 99th Indian Science Congress at Bhubaneswar. In 2012, he was awarded the Prix mondial Cino Del Duca from the Institut de France.[2] This prize recognizes authors whose work, literary or scientific, constitutes a message of modern humanism.[3] Thuận's areas of interest are extragalactic astronomy and galaxy formation. His research has focused on the evolution of galaxies and the chemical composition of the universe, and on compact blue dwarf galaxies.
Books for general readers
[edit]- 1992. Le destin de l'univers : Le big bang, et après, collection « Découvertes Gallimard » (nº 151), série Sciences et techniques. Paris: Éditions Gallimard.
- 1993. UK edition – The Changing Universe: Big Bang and After, 'New Horizons' series. London: Thames & Hudson.
- 1993. US edition – The Birth of the Universe: The Big Bang and After, "Abrams Discoveries" series. New York: Harry N. Abrams.
- 1994. The Secret Melody.
- 2000. Chaos and Harmony.
- 2001. The Quantum and the Lotus. (with Matthieu Ricard)
- 2008. Voyage au cœur de la lumière, collection « Découvertes Gallimard » (nº 527), série Sciences et techniques. Paris: Éditions Gallimard.
References
[edit]- Trinh Xuan Thuan and Axel Reisinger, (2000). Chaos and Harmony: Perspectives on Scientific Revolutions of the 20th Century, Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-512917-2
External links
[edit]- Trinhxuanthuan.fr
- website Trịnh Xuân Thuận
- Interview about science and Buddhism
- Ba cái chết cho ngôi sao - Trois morts pour l'étoile,
- Détermination de la distance d'une étoile céphéide
- 1948 births
- Living people
- People from Hanoi
- Vietnamese emigrants to the United States
- 20th-century American astronomers
- Writers of Vietnamese descent
- American cosmologists
- Members of the International Society for Science and Religion
- Kalinga Prize recipients
- American male writers
- 20th-century American physicists
- American writers in French
- French-language writers from Vietnam
- 20th-century American writers
- 21st-century American writers
- American scientists of Asian descent