Trần Đức Thiệp

Trần Đức Thiệp (born 1949) is a Vietnamese

Thiệp was born in Yên Hồ ward, Đức Thọ district, Hà Tĩnh province, with seven other siblings. His mother was in bad health making her unable to make income, and his father died when Thiệp was in fourth grade. To alleviate the financial situation, Thiệp frequented Vinh for summer break work. After graduating high school, he enrolled in Sofia University in Bulgaria, initially intending to graduate in geodesy, but he changed his discipline to physics and refined to nuclear physics in his second year in university. He cited Tzvetan Bonchev, a Bulgarian professor in nuclear physics, to be his inspiration for pursuing the discipline.^[2]

After graduating with a Master of Science in 1977, Thiệp was invited to be an assistant at the Sofia University's physics department. One year later, he returned to Vietnam and offered a position in the Nuclear Physics Department, Vietnam Institute of Physics. In this time, Vietnam was under a central planned economy, with multiple U.S. sanctions and in a state of general poverty. To quote fron the Dân Trí magazine: "During the late 70s and early 80s, [...], the nuclear physics discipline was forgotten without investment [from the government], and there were no state-level projects or projects for the nuclear field."^[a] The nuclear physics department would later be spun off into the Institute for Nuclear Science and Technology as part of Vietnam Atomic Energy Commission.^[2]

Radiation accident

In 1982, the

Thiệp's research center around the Mössbauer effect and nuclear reaction mechanics. He had held a professorship at Russia's Joint Institute for Nuclear Research.^[2]

See also

• List of civilian radiation accidents

Notes

References

Further reading

• What if you put your hand in a particle accelerator? - a detailed account of the Hanoi radiation incident