Nguyen Xuan Vinh
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Nguyen Xuan Vinh is a Vietnamese-American scientist and educator. He is married to Cung Thi Toan who's father Cung Dinh Van was executed by Ho Chi Minh along with Pham Quynh, and Ngo Dinh Khoi. [1]
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[edit] Military service
He was the Commander of the South Vietnamese Air Force from 1958 until 1962 when he resigned and came to the United States.
[edit] Education
In 1965 he received his doctorate, the first Ph.D. degree in Aerospace Engineering Sciences conferred by the University of Colorado. In 1972, he was awarded a national doctorate in Mathematics by the University of Paris, France. He joined the University of Michigan in 1968 as an associate professor of Aerospace Engineering and was promoted to the rank of professor in 1972.
In 1994, he was given the Mechanics and Control of Flight Award by the American Institute of Air and Space. As a scientist and educator, he has published three books and more than 100 papers in mathematics, astrodynamics and trajectory optimization. He is a member of the International Academy of Astronautics and a foreign member of the French National Academy of Air and Space.
In 2007 he won the Dirk Brouwer Award, awarded by the American Astronomical Society, for outstanding lifetime achievement in the field of dynamical astronomy
[edit] Author
In 1960, to promote a cadet recruitment program for the newly created Air Force Academy in Vietnam, he wrote a novel: Pilot's Life, which became a best seller (now in its sixth printing) and he was awarded the Republic of Vietnam's National Literature Prize. The novel is in the form of a series of letters written by a pilot to his sweetheart.
[edit] External links
- 2006 AMERICAN ASTRONAUTICAL SOCIETY AWARD Nguyen Xuan Vinh, aerospace scientist and military man
- XUAN VINH NGUYEN
- The first Vietnamese to receive the Dirk Brouwer Award
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