Đàm Thanh Sơn
Dam Thanh Son | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1969 (age 51–52) |
| Nationality | Vietnamese |
| Alma mater | Institute for Nuclear Research |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Nuclear physics Theoretical physics |
| Institutions | University of Washington University of Chicago MIT Columbia University |
| Doctoral advisor | Valery Rubakov |
| Website | http://home.uchicago.edu/~dtson/ |
Đàm Thanh Sơn (born 1969) is a Vietnamese theoretical physicist working in quantum chromodynamics, applications of string theory and many-body physics.[1]
Early life and education[]
Born in North Vietnam, Bac Ninh. Sơn received his Ph.D. at the Institute for Nuclear Research in Moscow in 1995.
Career[]
Sơn was a postdoc at the University of Washington from 1995 to 1997, and the MIT Center for Theoretical Physics from 1997 to 1999. From 1999 to 2002 he was a professor at Columbia University and a RIKEN-BNL fellow. He moved to Seattle in 2002 when he became a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Nuclear Theory and a professor in the Physics Department, University of Washington. Then in 2012, he moved to Chicago and became the 19th person to hold a University Professorship at University of Chicago.
Honors[]
- Outstanding Junior Investigator in Nuclear Physics, DOE, 2000
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow, 2001
- American Physical Society Fellow, 2006
- Simons Investigator Award, 2013
- Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2014
- Elected to National Academy of Sciences, 2014
- Dirac Medal of the ICTP, 2018 [2]
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- 1969 births
- Theoretical physicists
- String theorists
- International Mathematical Olympiad participants
- Vietnamese academics
- Vietnamese scientists
- Living people
- Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
- University of Chicago faculty
- Simons Investigator
- MIT Center for Theoretical Physics alumni
- People educated at High School for Gifted Students, Hanoi University of Science