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Physics Nobel Laureate Jerome Friedman joins scientific program in Vietnam

Physics Nobel Laureate Jerome Friedman joins scientific program in Vietnam

Monday, July 27, 2015, 14:20 GMT+7

American physicist Professor Jerome Friedman arrived in the south-central Vietnamese province of Binh Dinh on Sunday to join an annual scientific program. The event, the 11th Rencontre du Vietnam (Meet Vietnam) program, is themed on elementary particles. Prof. Friedman, a 1990 Nobel Laureate in Physics, is the director of the Quark Institute under the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The 85-year-old physicist was welcomed by provincial People’s Committee Deputy Chairwoman Tran Thi Thu Ha at Phu Cat Airport in the capital city of Quy Nhon yesterday afternoon. The program includes many workshops that will take place at the International Center of Interdisciplinary Science Education (ICISE), founded by Vietnamese Professor Tran Thanh Van, a friend of Prof. Friedman. The two scholars met and talked with each other when Prof. Friedman arrived in Binh Dinh. As part of the program, Prof. Friedman will hold a talk with Vietnamese teachers and students, as well as local scientific researchers, at the Binh Dinh Province Cultural Center. The topic will be “Path Leading to Quark and Farther.” Prof. Friedman is the seventh Nobel laureate who has engaged in scientific activities at the ICISE, located in Quy Nhon. In 1968-69, Friedman, along with Henry W. Kendall and Richard E. Taylor at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, conducted experiments that gave the first experimental evidence that protons had an internal structure, later known as quarks. For this, Friedman, Kendall and Taylor shared the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics.

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