Trần Thanh Vân (physicist) explained

Jean Trần Thanh Vân
Fields:Particle physics
Known For:Rencontres de Moriond
Awards:Knight of the National Order of Merit, France (1993)
Knight of the Legion of Honor, France (1999)
Friendship Order, Vietnam (2015)
Workplaces:CNRS
Alma Mater:University of Paris
Spouse:Lê Kim Ngoc
Birth Place:Đồng Hới, Vietnam
Thesis Title:Contribution à l’étude des corrections relativistes à la fonction d’onde du deutéron et à la diffusion élastique électron-deutéron
Thesis Url:https://doi.org/10.1051/anphys/196413090139
Thesis Year:1963

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

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 the 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 a promoter 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.

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. Web site: 8 September 2014. Jean Trân Thanh Vân. 6 December 2021. aip.org. en.
  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. 10.1051/anphys/196413090139. 1964AnPh...13..139T . 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,.... 6 December 2021. Sudoc. 1963 . Trâǹ . Jean Thanh Vân . Gourdin . Michel . Jancovici . Bernard .
  4. Web site: 28 June 2016. Jean Tran Thanh Van : "Sans science fondamentale, le monde ne peut pas avancer". 6 December 2021. Sciences et Avenir. fr.
  5. Web site: Jean Trân Thanh Vân's author profile in INSPIRE. 6 December 2021. inspirehep.net.
  6. Web site: Jean Trân Thanh Vân. 3 December 2021. International Year of Basic Sciences for Development. en-GB.
  7. Web site: Del Rosso. Antonella. 2 April 2012. The inventor of the "Rencontres". 6 December 2021. CERN Bulletin. CERN.
  8. Web site: Jepsen. Kathryn. 1 May 2012. One degree of separation: the Vietnam connection. 3 December 2021. Symmetry Magazine. en.
  9. Web site: 27 February 2013. ATLAS in the Italian Alps for the Rencontres de Moriond 2013. 3 December 2021. ATLAS Collaboration. en.
  10. Web site: 19 March 2015. 50 years of particle physics at Moriond. 3 December 2021. CERN. en.
  11. Web site: 23 April 2014. Le Docteur-professeur Trân Thanh Vân et sa Rencontre de Blois. 3 December 2021. Nhândân en ligne. fr.
  12. Pepe Altarelli. Monica. 1994. Physics in Vietnam. CERN Courier. 34. 2. 17–18.
  13. Web site: 5 May 2015. Internationally famous Vietnamese scientists. 3 December 2021. Hanoi Times. en.
  14. Web site: 26 May 2018. Chuyện kể năm 2018 của Giáo sư Trần Thanh Vân. live. 28 September 2020. 6 December 2021. Saigon Times Weekly. https://web.archive.org/web/20200928184024/https://www.thesaigontimes.vn/272963/chuyen-ke-nam-2018-cua-giao-su-tran-thanh-van.html . Vietnamese.
  15. Web site: All for the home country. 2021-12-06. baobinhduong.vn. en.
  16. News: 27 May 2013. Kim et Jean Tran, mariés avec la science. fr. Le Monde.fr. 3 December 2021.
  17. Web site: VnExpress. A passion for science, a deep love for Vietnam - VnExpress International. 6 December 2021. VnExpress International. en.
  18. Web site: Décret du 24 juin 1993 portant promotion et nomination. 6 December 2021. legifrance.gouv.fr.
  19. Web site: Distinctions Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur BO 08-1999. 6 December 2021. dgdr.cnrs.fr.
  20. Web site: Décret du 13 juillet 1999 portant promotion et nomination. 6 December 2021. legifrance.gouv.fr.
  21. Web site: Jackson. Judy. Fermi News: Jean Trân Thanh Vân. 3 December 2021. fnal.gov. 4 August 2000.
  22. Web site: 9 July 2015. Professors Tran Thanh Van, Le Kim Ngoc awarded Friendship Order. 6 December 2021.
  23. 2001. People: awards. CERN Courier. 41. 7. 33.
  24. Web site: 9 July 2015. Professors Tran Thanh Van, Le Kim Ngoc awarded Friendship Order. 6 December 2021. SGGP English Edition.
  25. Web site: Jean Trân Thanh Vân receives Tate medal. 6 December 2021. ILC NewsLine. en-US.
  26. Web site: 10 July 2016. Giáo sư Trần Thanh Vân nhận bằng Tiến sĩ danh dự từ JINR DUBNA. 6 December 2021. Báo giao thông. vietnamese.

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