Vo Dinh Tuan - one of '100 contemporary geniuses'

Creator Synectics, a UK-based global business consulting firm, has just announced the list of "100 contemporary world geniuses" . In the list is a Vietnamese-born scientist, Dr. Vo Dinh Tuan, ranked 43. He is currently the director of the Fitzpatrick Quantum Physics Institute of Duke University (North Carolina, USA).

From homemade toys .

Dr. Vo Dinh Tuan was born in Vietnam. Like many famous scientists, when he was young he created his own toys. The passion for manufacturing is not only a hobby but also an instinct, always motivating him to study and reach the horizon of discovery.

At the age of 17, he went to Switzerland to study in Switzerland. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in physics from the Lausanne Federal Polytechnic School (1971), and four years later he was awarded a biophysical chemistry at the Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland. After receiving his doctorate, he settled in the United States.

The website of the United States Trademark and Inventory Agency (USPTO, affiliated with the US Government) said that the first invention of Vo Dinh Tuan awarded to the invention " Lifesaver Tapes " (1987) is a very popular tape. Small and easy to mass-produce, used to attach to workers' shirts when they work in high-risk environments, to record the parameters of the hazardous substances they are caught in the process of working. . It takes only 11 seconds to know how much poisoning you have and cure right away without having to go to the hospital, and then it takes time to take blood and urine for testing.

Dr. Vo Dinh Tuan and a book on nanotechnology compiled by him (Photo: ornl.gov)

According to the website of the Vietnam Youth and Students Association in Japan (http://www.vysa.jp/), in the field of medicine, Dr. Tuan has found genetic changes in the human body and thus transmitted illustrates diagnostic systems using the discovery of DNA that causes diabetes and cancer. All of his systems are based on an easy-to-use "companion light" (SL: synchronous luminesence) method, since the recorded data is displayed and read simultaneously by laser and fiber optics. Thanks to that, the disease can be adjusted in time without taking medicine . His method is also accepted by pharmaceutical companies and environmental organizations.

Go to reduce human pain

Albert Hoffman , LCD inventor - (Photo: Mistakesweremade.com)

Creator Synetics - specializing in consulting support for companies and organizations related to innovation, innovation and breakthrough ideas - has counted candidates according to the five standards: creating big changes, much known, the power of knowledge, achievements and cultural importance. The company sent emails to 4,000 Britons who knew last summer and asked them to nominate ten people they thought were geniuses that are still alive. As a result, Synetics received nominations for 1,100 characters, but only 60% of them were alive. Synetics has created a committee of creative and creative experts to score (up to ten of the stated criteria) to filter out "100 contemporary geniuses".

Major research institutes have used his technique such as the National Cancer Institute of the United States and almost all US hospitals have adopted his diagnostic methods and equipment. So far he has more than 30 patents. Dr. Tuan said that his research has the purpose of simply contributing to reducing human pain."The most difficult thing for an incurable disease like cancer or AIDS is to discover it."

In 2003, USPTO honored four American and Asian scientists, including Doctor Vo Dinh Tuan. The official USPTO statement said: "These scientists have made great contributions to the achievements of science and medicine, especially their inventions that have helped patients resist the desperate pain of human".

On May 9, 2002, commemorating the traditional month of Asian minorities in the US, Ms. JC Hayward - a spokeswoman for USTPO - said that the inventions of Dr. Vo Dinh Tuan and the scientists Other studies have contributed to making America the most advanced science and technology in the world. It is worth mentioning that Vo Dinh Tuan is named in both honorees in 2002.

In 2002, American elementary and middle schools showed a video of scientists, including Dr. Tuan, to students as an extracurricular program. Ms. Hayward said: "It is primarily for the young generation of America to remember the pundits of different ethnic groups and colors who have made great contributions not only to the United States but also to the whole world."

Dr. Vo Dinh Tuan is also an academician of the American Institute of Chemistry and an editor and advisor of many specialized international journals. He won five research and development awards (R&D) in 1981, 1987, 1992, 1994 and 1996; The author of more than 300 works is printed in scientific journals.

He also received many other international awards. Currently, this talented scientist is researching to improve new technologies to produce modern medical devices, with small size and low cost to contribute to improving efficiency and saving in diagnosis. guess and treat the disease.

And other " contemporary geniuses "

At the top of the list that Creator Synetics announced on October 29 is Swiss chemist Albert Hoffman (who is 101 years old, world famous as the inventor of LCD) and British computer genius Tim Berners - Lee (a in the creators of the Internet). The other three of the first five are investors George Soros (USA), Matt Groening (satirical cartoonist, US) and politician, former South African president Nelson Mandela.

Book on spectroscopy by Dr. Vo Dinh Tuan - Photo: http://webh01.ua.ac.be/

A book on nanotechnology, compiled by Dr. Vo Dinh Tuan (Photo: Oroteomicsresearch.org)

In addition, the list also contains representatives of Russia (Grigory Perelman is the 10th mathematician or the world's most famous automatic gun manufacturer Mikhail Kalashnikov in position 83), Brazil, China, Iran, Japan. (Hiroshi Ishiguro robot inventor), Ireland, Poland, Germany, Canada, Philippines, Spain, Netherlands, India, New Zealand, Austria and Norway.

Only 15 women in this group of 100 geniuses live, including Joan Rowling - author of Harry Potter (UK) and actress Meryl Streep (USA). Many people on the list are famous people in the community culture, such as singer Paul McCartney (USA) and musician David Bowie (UK), director Quentin Tarantino (USA), writer Stephen King (America).

According to this list, America is the country with the most contemporary geniuses (43), followed by Britain (23), 13 characters from Europe and 11 from Asia, of which only one is African. The British newspaper ( Telegraph, Daily Mail ) reported that the United Kingdom was the country with the most contemporary geniuses per capita: every 2.5 million Britons had a genius alive. The United States ranked second with a genius alive on 6.9 million people.

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"Education comes with you to the end of your life"

In an interview published on the Biomedical Light Quantum Center website of Oak Ridge National Experimental Institute (ORNL) in Tennessee, when asked: "When did you decide to become a scientist?" Dr. Vo Dinh Tuan replied, "It is my parents who gave me the value of education and the passion for science. My father often told me that unlike material possessions, it can be lost anytime. , education will accompany you to the end of your life, right at the university I seriously consider studying ".

According to him, it was in the early 1970s, right after the 1968 "student revolution" in France and then spread throughout Europe."At that time, our students were interested in many topics, and we often questioned the meaning of life and the purpose of existence. In class, we read physics and chemistry. but out of class we were engulfed in Albert Camus's book, Jean-Paul Sartre (writers, French philosophers, considered supporters of existentialism), Carl Jung (Swiss psychologist, founder of analytical psychology), and Jiddu Krishnamurti (Indian writer, orator).

Most of us also think and dream, often very innocent and pure, that one of us will " recreate the world ". In one aspect, the " existential phase " in my student life continued to influence my thinking about scientific research.I believe that science, sometimes, needs to ask questions about its meaning and to reform itself to renew it from old creeds and patterns. 'http://www.ornl.gov/info/ornlreview/v37_3_04/article13.shtml.