QUY NHƠN – Professor Gerard’t Hooft, Dutch Nobel Laureate in Physics and his wife arrived in Bình Định on Sunday afternoon. Accepting an invitation from Prof. Trần Thanh Vân, president of Rencontres du Vietnam, Prof. Hooft will attend Việt Nam’s scientific event on cosmography in the coastal city of Quy Nhơn.

International Symposium on Particles, Strings and Cosmology (PASCOS) was officially opened by the association of Rencontres du Vietnam (Meeting Vietnam) at the International Center of Interdisciplinary Science Education (ICISE) in Quy Nhon, Binh Dinh province on July 11.

Vice President Nguyen Thi Doan presented prestigious Friendship Order to Vietnamese French Professors Le Kim Ngoc and Tran Thanh Van at a ceremony held in Hanoi on July 8 for their outstanding contribution the country’s scientific development and childcare in Vietnam. The two professors, Tran Thanh Van and his wife Le Kim Ngoc established an Association in France to help Vietnamese children in 1970. They have returned home to organize many exchanges between Vietnamese and foreign scientists since 1993.

HA NOI (VNS) — The prime minister has approved an increase in State funding for a space science complex in the central coastal province of Binh Dinh, to cost over VND171.1 billion (US$8.1 million).

Five Nobel laureates have visited Viet Nam this month to attend a number of scientific exchange events held by the Association Rencontres du Vietnam in central Binh Dinh Province. They have also witnessed the inauguration of the country's new International Centre for Interdisciplinary Science and Education (ICISE).

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