Jean Trần Thanh Vân
BornJuly 4, 1936 (1936-07-04) (age 87)
Đồng Hới, Vietnam
Alma materUniversity of Paris
Known forRencontres de Moriond
SpouseLê Kim Ngoc
AwardsKnight of the National Order of Merit, France (1993)
Knight of the Legion of Honor, France (1999)
Friendship Order, Vietnam (2015)
Scientific career
FieldsParticle physics
InstitutionsCNRS
ThesisContribution à l’étude des corrections relativistes à la fonction d’onde du deutéron et à la diffusion élastique électron-deutéron (1963)

Trần Thanh Vân, also known as Jean Trần Thanh Vân, is a Vietnamese-French physicist born on 4 July 1936 in Đồng Hới, Quảng Bình Province in Vietnam.

Biography

Vân attended secondary school in Huế. In 1953 he left Vietnam for France. He studied mathematics and physics at University of Paris and earned his undergraduate degrees in 1957.[1] In his PhD work, Vân, still at University of Paris, turned his studies toward particle physics, focusing on the neutron as the natural partner of the proton in the structure of matter. He defended his thesis and obtained his doctoral degree in 1963.[2][3]

After his PhD, Vân joined the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), where he spent his whole career. In 1991 he was given the title Directeur de Recherches, the most senior research position in France. As of 2001 he is emeritus Directeur de Recherches.[4]

Vân's scientific work has focused on nucleon interactions at medium energy and the deuteron's relativistic wave function, the 2-body interactions at high energy, Regge poles and absorption models and the dual parton model. He has co-authored more than 300 scientific articles.[5]

Vân is one of the promoters of the International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development, which was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in December 2021.[6]

Rencontres

Trần Thanh Vân has become internationally renowned as the organizer of scientific meetings, in particular for the series Rencontres de Moriond, Rencontres de Blois and Rencontres du Vietnam.[7]

Rencontres de Moriond

The first meeting took place at Moriond in the French Alps in 1966.[7][8][9][10] This was the very prototype of winter conferences, which has developed to be an essential moment in the high-energy physics year: the moment for which all experimental collaborations prepare a new release of data, and which theorists await with great expectations. At the «Rencontres ‍de ‍Moriond», young ‍scientists—both theorists ‍and experimenters—at ‍the ‍post-doctoral ‍level, ‍meet ‍senior ‍researchers to ‍discuss ‍the results.

Rencontres de Blois

Since 1989 the «Rencontres de Blois» have been organised in the city of Blois, in France. While the Blois meetings have dealt with several topics, one of their great achievements has been to recognize (like Moriond) the cross-disciplinary field of astroparticle physics. The meetings have covered topics ranging from particle physics to chaos theory, life and planetary science.[11]

Rencontres du Vietnam

The series «Rencontres du Vietnam»started in 1993 when Vietnam first re-opened to foreign scientists. The meetings are based on the same principle as for Moriond and Blois.[12][13][14]

Private life

He is married to Lê Kim Ngoc since 1961.[15][16] The couple has two adult children. In 1970 Vân and Ngoc established the association «Aide à l’Enfance du Vietnam», to set up the SOS Children's Village in Vietnam.[17]

Awards

References

  1. 1 2 "Jean Trân Thanh Vân". www.aip.org. 2014-09-08. Retrieved 2021-12-06.
  2. ↑ Tran Thanh Van, Jean (1964). "Contribution à l'étude des corrections relativistes à la fonction d'onde du deutéron et à la diffusion élastique électron-deutéron". Annales de Physique. 13 (9): 139–178. Bibcode:1964AnPh...13..139T. doi:10.1051/anphys/196413090139. ISSN 0003-4169.
  3. ↑ "Contribution à l'étude des corrections relativistes à la fonction d'onde du deutéron et à la diffusion élastique électron-deutéron / par Jean Trân Thanh Vân,... - Sudoc". www.sudoc.fr. Retrieved 2021-12-06.
  4. ↑ "Jean Tran Thanh Van : "Sans science fondamentale, le monde ne peut pas avancer"". Sciences et Avenir (in French). 2016-06-28. Retrieved 2021-12-06.
  5. ↑ "Jean Trân Thanh Vân's author profile in INSPIRE". inspirehep.net. Retrieved 2021-12-06.
  6. ↑ "Jean Trân Thanh Vân". International Year of Basic Sciences for Development. Retrieved 2021-12-03.
  7. 1 2 Del Rosso, Antonella (2 April 2012). "The inventor of the "Rencontres"". CERN Bulletin. CERN. Retrieved 2021-12-06.
  8. ↑ Jepsen, Kathryn (1 May 2012). "One degree of separation: the Vietnam connection". Symmetry Magazine. Retrieved 2021-12-03.
  9. ↑ "ATLAS in the Italian Alps for the Rencontres de Moriond 2013". ATLAS Collaboration. 27 February 2013. Retrieved 2021-12-03.
  10. ↑ "50 years of particle physics at Moriond". CERN. 19 March 2015. Retrieved 2021-12-03.
  11. ↑ "Le Docteur-professeur Trân Thanh Vân et sa Rencontre de Blois". Nhândân en ligne (in French). 23 April 2014. Retrieved 2021-12-03.
  12. ↑ Pepe Altarelli, Monica (1994). "Physics in Vietnam". CERN Courier. 34 (2): 17–18.
  13. ↑ "Internationally famous Vietnamese scientists". Hanoi Times. 5 May 2015. Retrieved 2021-12-03.
  14. ↑ "Chuyện kể năm 2018 của Giáo sư Trần Thanh Vân". Saigon Times Weekly (in Vietnamese). 26 May 2018. Archived from the original on 28 September 2020. Retrieved 2021-12-06.
  15. ↑ "All for the home country". baobinhduong.vn. Retrieved 2021-12-06.
  16. ↑ "Kim et Jean Tran, mariés avec la science". Le Monde.fr (in French). 2013-05-27. Retrieved 2021-12-03.
  17. ↑ VnExpress. "A passion for science, a deep love for Vietnam - VnExpress International". VnExpress International – Latest news, business, travel and analysis from Vietnam. Retrieved 2021-12-06.
  18. ↑ "Décret du 24 juin 1993 portant promotion et nomination". www.legifrance.gouv.fr. Retrieved 2021-12-06.
  19. ↑ "Distinctions Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur BO 08-1999". www.dgdr.cnrs.fr. Retrieved 2021-12-06.
  20. ↑ "Décret du 13 juillet 1999 portant promotion et nomination". www.legifrance.gouv.fr. Retrieved 2021-12-06.
  21. ↑ Jackson, Judy (4 August 2000). "Fermi News: Jean Trân Thanh Vân". www.fnal.gov. Retrieved 2021-12-03.
  22. ↑ "Professors Tran Thanh Van, Le Kim Ngoc awarded Friendship Order". 2015-07-09. Retrieved 2021-12-06.
  23. ↑ "People: awards". CERN Courier. 41 (7): 33. 2001.
  24. ↑ "Professors Tran Thanh Van, Le Kim Ngoc awarded Friendship Order". SGGP English Edition. 2015-07-09. Retrieved 2021-12-06.
  25. ↑ Dylla, H. Frederick (2020), "Bringing Science Back to Vietnam", Scientific Journeys, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 63–65, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-55800-0_15, ISBN 978-3-030-55799-7, S2CID 226620372, retrieved 2021-12-06
  26. ↑ "Jean Trân Thanh Vân receives Tate medal". ILC NewsLine. Retrieved 2021-12-06.
  27. ↑ "Giáo sư Trần Thanh Vân nhận bằng Tiến sĩ danh dự từ JINR DUBNA". Báo giao thông (in Vietnamese). 2016-07-10. Retrieved 2021-12-06.
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