'The prodigy' Hanoi became a famous physicist in America

The so-called " prodigy " in Hanoi is Dam Thanh Son, 25, who successfully defended his doctoral thesis. In May 2010, Physics Today published three articles, praising the results of Dam Thanh Son group. Prof. Pham Xuan Yêm considered the result ' miraculous ' .

Dam Thanh Son was born in 1969 in Hanoi in an intellectual and transparent family. My father is Dam Trung Bao pharmacology professor, my mother is biochemical professor Nguyen Thi Hao, my uncle is Professor of physics Dam Trung Don.

Dam Thanh Son

From a young age, Son was famous as a ' prodigy ' : new class 2 (equivalent to the current grade 3) has solved math grade 10 (equivalent to the current grade 12). Therefore, the Hanoi Department of Education has a special way for Son to " leap " to the last year of secondary school.

At level III, Son passed the entrance exam to the Specialized Mathematics Division of Hanoi University.

In 1984, just 15 years old, when he first attended the International Mathematical Olympiad in Prague, Son won a gold medal with a maximum score of 42/42.

Then Sơn was sent to Moscow to study physics at Lomonosov University. Influenced by his uncle Dam Trung Don, Son dreamed of becoming a prominent theoretical physicist. If you want that, you have to study really well at math. Retained by the school, Son successfully defended his doctoral thesis at 25 years old. Son instructor is Professor Valery Rubakov, director of Moscow Nuclear Research Institute. But, the Soviet Union collapsed!

Loved Son as a child, Master Rubakov advised him to go to the US, where conditions are better than the crisis-stricken Russia, to avoid losing talent. So Sơn flew to New York, USA, to work in the research group of Professor Lý Chính Đạo (Tsung-Dao Lee), who shared the 1957 Nobel Prize with another American, also American. United, is Yang Zhenning professor (Chen Ning Yang), due to the discovery of the phenomenon of not preserving parity in weak interaction. But then, several years later, Sơn left Professor Ly to leave for Washington University in Seattle, on the Pacific Ocean because it was warmer there.

In July 2008, the International Physics Olympiad took place in Hanoi, attracting 82 countries and territories. There are three Vietnamese physicists abroad invited to join the Organizing Committee: Tran Thanh Van, Truong Nguyen Tran (in France), and the youngest is Dam Thanh Son (in the US).

In early 2005, PK Kovtun, DT Son and AO Starinets (later called KSS group) published a new work on a liquid black hole model in 10-dimensional space. in the physics magazine World Summit Physical Review Letters (episode 91, page 111601).

From right to left: Prof. Trinh Xuan Thuan, Professor Dam Thanh Son, and Prof. Pham Xuan Yem at Meeting Vietnam in 2004.

Immediately, this discovery resonates in the expert circles. Scientific journals with wide influences such as New Scientist (April 2005), Physics Today (May 5-2005) all have articles about that work, an important theoretical invention.

Physics World , the monthly journal of the international physics community, in June 2005 invited Dam Thanh Son (DT Son), a leading physicist, to write a paper on the new issue. These are Liquid Universe Hints at Strings that can be read through the Internet.

The New Scientist newspaper published by Jenny Hogan is the Exotic Black Holes Spawn New Universal Law (Exotic black holes that lead to new universal rules). The author uses exotic terminology because it is not necessarily a real black hole in reality, but a ' black hole ' modeled by string theory in 10-dimensional space, to describes a strong interactive liquid, quark-gluon liquid, still considered to exist in three-dimensional space.

November 2005, in Scientific American magazine, Juan Maldacena, a famous American physicist, gave an overview, in which, after mentioning the discovery of the famous British scientist Stephen W. Hawking about black hole, immediately referring to the invention of Dam Thanh Son, a Vietnamese scientist working in the US, about the liquid of the ' Newborn Universe '.

We can also read Tim Folger's Big Bang on Discover. The author directly interviewed Dam Thanh Son, devoted many pages to recounting his discovery, as well as the comments of many talented physicists.

Happily, scientific journals in our country such as Physics Today, Scientific Activities . have been timely and respectfully reported on Dam Thanh Son's invention.

In recent years, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) of Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York, has created unprecedented high-temperature matter. Earth. The purpose of this experiment is to reestablish the state that once existed for the first 10 microseconds after the Big Bang has gradually formed our Universe.

Using the superstring theory in 10-dimensional space, Dam Thanh Son group accurately calculated that the material created by RHIC is a liquid , almost ideal, with a viscosity ratio with The density of entropy is a constant (constant) associated with fundamental constants in the quantum world, such as Planck's constant, Boltzman's constant.

Brookhaven's findings were published at the April 2005 American Physical Society Conference in Tampa, Florida, noting the adaptive calculations of string theory conducted by Dam Thanh Son. This is the first time string theory has been mentioned in the announcement of a large, year-long experiment .

Recently, in May 2010, Physics Today published three articles in the same magazine, praising the work of the KSS group - that is very rare. The theoretical calculations of Professor Dam Thanh Son and his colleagues have been verified by two experiments in two opposite polarities, one at extreme temperatures (millions of degrees K), one at the temperature extremely small (a few millionth of a degree K). Both experiments in the two polar opposites have observed an almost perfect flow and measured its viscosity. This viscosity depends only on two fundamental constants, Planck's constant and Boltzmann's constant.

Professor Pham Xuan Yem, a famous theoretical physicist at the University of Paris 6, wrote a long commentary on this event under the title: A universal law in physics? Prof. Yêm commented: ' Tests of RHIC and Duke University have confirmed the correctness of the theoretical work of Dam Thanh Son and two colleagues (KSS group), a rich and universal project. generalized, meeting many very different physical systems. It requires the author to have a knowledge that is both profound and holistic, covers many disciplines of physics and comprehends many different approaches to correct the right problem and explain properly, as well as predict the new phenomena observed, measured by experiment. The work of the KSS team paved the way for a series of studies of seemingly unrelated districts (hydrodynamics, cosmology and astrophysics, super-wire and particles, superconductivity and physical physics solid, nuclear substance) but bearing a common, universal and basic character. '

Professor Pham Xuan Yêm considers the results that the KSS team achieved as ' miraculous ', and its authors have mastered the superstring theory, the whole-image principle, and quantum black hole theory.