GS Nguyễn xuân Vinh


Biography
Nguyen Xuan Vinh (b. January 1930 in Yen Bay, Vietnam) 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.

Military service He was the Commander and first Air Marshal of the South Vietnamese Air Force from 1958 until 1962 when he resigned and came to the United States.

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 Aeronautics and Astronautics. 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.

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.

Awards In 2006, he won the Dirk Brouwer Award, awarded by the American Astronautical Society, for outstanding lifetime achievement in the field of space flight mechanics and astrodynamics.
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XUAN VINH NGUYEN
Profession: Aerospace Engineer/Novelist
Birthplace: New York
Position: Professor of Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan
ver 1000 aerospace engineers have studied under the much accomplished Nguyen Xuan Vinh. Since 1972 he has been a professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Michigan and has chaired more than 20 doctoral committees. Nguyen was also a visiting professor at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Etudes Aérospatiales in France from '74-'75, and a chair professor of applied mathematics at the National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan in 1982. He received the 1996 Excellence 2000 Award from the Pan Asian American Chamber of Commerce for the field of science.
Nguyen was born in Yen Bay, Vietnam in January, 1930. He graduated from the French Air Force Academy in 1953 and served as Commander of the Vietnamese Air Force from '58 to '62. He received his doctorate in 1965--the first Ph.D. in aerospace engineering conferred by the University of Colorado. He also writes Vietnamese besteselling novels under the pen name Toan Phong

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