10 outstanding scientific and technological events in 2005

On the afternoon of December 29, the Science & Life newspaper collaborated with the scientific reporters in Hanoi to vote on 10 outstanding scientific - technological (science and technology) events of 2005.

The mathematician Ngo Bao Chau made it into the list of 10 events after being offered a special assignment

At the top of the list is the fact that the Prime Minister meets scientists. Professor Nguyen Van Truong and mathematician Ngo Bao Chau were two individuals who made the list of 10 events after a person was awarded the title of Labor Hero during the renovation period and one was recommended to be a canonist. Professor

Here is a list of 10 events:

1. The Prime Minister meets with scientists. This is considered the ' Dien Hong Conference ' of science and technology. At the meeting, the scientists had the opportunity to express to the Prime Minister the thoughts and aspirations as well as the pressing in the science and technology activities in our country today.

2. A new step in issuing and adjusting the law on science and technology. In the past year, two important laws passed by the National Assembly include the Intellectual Property Law and the Electronic Transaction Law, creating an important basis for the development of science and technology.

3. Completing the study of decoding the influenza A H5N1 virus genome. Scientists at the Pasteur Institute in Ho Chi Minh City have successfully decoded the influenza A H5N1 virus genome on human and poultry specimens in Vietnam from five human samples and 16 virus samples on infected poultry and waterfowl at the southern area.

4. Honor the scientist - hero Nguyen Van Truong. At the age of 84, Prof. Dr. Nguyen Van Truong, Director of the Institute of Ecological Economy was honored to receive the title of Labor Hero in the renovation period. Prof. Nguyen Van Truong and his colleagues set up the first private eco-economic institute in Vietnam and built many ecological villages on the less sustainable ecological areas, helping farmers to escape poverty.

5. Decree 115/2005 / ND-CP, 'contract 10 in science '. Decree 115/2005 / ND-CP provides the mechanism of autonomy and self-responsibility of public science and technology organizations such as 'contract 10' in science. This decree will create a great revolution in science and technology activities. S&T organizations have the right to decide on building plans, implementing science and technology tasks, being entitled to decide on arrangement and adjustment of organizational structure.

6. Approving the technology market development project. This is a project to build and perfect the basic institutions of the technology market, create a healthy competitive environment, strive to achieve the average growth of technology trading value at 10% per year in period 2006-2010. The project will contribute to promoting and supporting enterprises to invest in technological innovation, quickly increasing the quantity and quality of technology purchase and sale transactions.

7. Blossoming of 'barefoot science' houses. In 2005, the emergence of many inventions originating from farmers, even those who have not yet completed high school. It is farmer Nguyen Van Long (Thuan Dien, An Hiep, Chau Thanh, Ben Tre hamlets) that simulated the way of hand-weaving and how to thread a woman's thread by machine; Mr. Huynh Thai Duong (Ham Duc, Ham Thuan Bac and Binh Thuan communes) with a corn peeling machine and peeling machine .

8. Mathematician Ngo Bao Chau was asked to teach a professor. Protecting a doctoral thesis at 25 years old, habilitation thesis (equivalent to a doctorate in science) at the age of 31, in early 2004, when less than 32 years old, Ngo Bao Chau received two major universities in France (Paris 6 and Paris 11) invited as a professor.

At the end of 2004, Clay Institute of Mathematics organized an annual research award for Ngo Bao Chau and Gérard Laumon to "recognize the exceptionally outstanding achievements in mathematics" of the two. Although he currently works in Paris (France), he is still offered a special position as a professor at the Institute of Mathematics (under the Vietnam Institute of Science and Technology).

9. Vietnamese science set foot in many new fields of science and technology. These are the successes in the study of embryonic stem cells of the group of scientists at the University of Natural Sciences (Hanoi National University) led by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Mong Hung, who successfully researched , fabrication of amorphous magnetic materials with new magnetic properties and physical effects of scientists at the Institute of Technical Physics (Hanoi University of Technology), successfully fabricated the scanning probe microscope at Institute of Applied Physics and Scientific Equipment (Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology) .

10. The 2nd Techmart was successfully organized in Ho Chi Minh City. Compared to the first technology-equipment market (Techmart) in Hanoi City, Techmart for the second time is bigger in size and quality. This is one of the initial breakthroughs of the science and technology market in Vietnam, which is a miniature picture of the movement of promoting technical innovation in the country.

K.HUNG