BINH DINH (VNS)— Government leaders, Nobel Prize winners, and leading international scientists yesterday attended the opening of a centre for interdisciplinary science and education in central Binh Dinh Province.

BINH DINH (VNS)— Four American Nobel laureates arrived in central Binh Dinh Province yesterday to attend the 9th "Meeting Viet Nam" event – a scientific symposium which starts today. The illustrious foursome are Prof. George Smoot, Prof. David J. Gross, Prof. Jack Steinberger, and Prof. Sheldon Lee Glashow. They will join fellow Nobel winner Prof. Klaus von Klitzing, who arrived last Thursday, to deliver keynote speeches at the conference.

Vietnamese-French Professor Jean Tran Thanh Van is the third physician in Asia to be awarded the Tate Medal for his contribution to physics. He has raised US$2 million to build an international centre for science and education in Viet Nam. He talks with Ha Nguyen about the ICISE.

HA NOI (VNS)– Over 200 scientists from 30 nations, including seven Nobel Prize winners, will attend the 9th "Meeting Viet Nam" – a series of scientific workshops and physics lectures to be held from July 28 to August 17 in the central province of Binh Dinh.

Marc Gricourt, mayor of Blois, France, meets with Prof. Doctor Jean Tran Thanh Van, Chairman of the Meet Viet Nam Association in France, and Vietnamese Ambassador to France Duong Chi Dung at the 25th Blois Meeting. The event, "Particle Physics and Cosmography", is a chance for hundreds of international scientists to discuss their research. — VNA/VNS Photo Le Ha

Ha Noi-- An international physical science meeting, the sixth of its kind in Viet Nam, opened in Quy Nhon city, the central coastal province of Binh Dinh on July 16. The event, co-organised by the organisation Meeting Vietnam and the Binh Dinh provincial People's Committee, attracted physicists, who are Nobel laureates and 120 leading professors and doctors from 23 countries and territories worldwide.