(VOV) – The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) of the US has elected 84 new members, including Vietnamese professor Dam Thanh Son from the University of Chicago.
An NAS press release on April 29 said the academy also elected 21 scientists from 15 countries as its foreign associates, acknowledging the scientists’ distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
Born in Hanoi in 1969, Professor Son got a doctoral degree in physics at Moscow-based National Research Nuclear University in 1995. He subsequently held postdoctoral appointments at the University of Washington and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a faculty appointment at Columbia University.
Son returned to Seattle in 2002 working as a professor. Ten years later he was invited to work for the Chicago University in 2012.
Son most recently served as a senior fellow at the Institute for Nuclear Theory and also held an appointment as a professor of physics at the University of Washington. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society.
He was an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow and received an Outstanding Junior Investigator Award from the US Department of Energy. He is the author or co-author of about 100 scholarly publications.
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