On October 8, Dr. Tran Thanh Son – deputy director of the International Center for Interdisciplinary Science and Education (ICISE, headquartered in Quy Nhon City, Binh Dinh) said that Professor Pham Quang Hung had just passed away on the afternoon of 7 -10 in Virginia (USA) due to serious illness, at the age of 74.
According to Mr. Son, Professor Pham Quang Hung is the person who laid the foundation for establishing the advanced physics master’s program at Hue University. That program has trained many masters in physics. Many of these people have won scholarships to study abroad as doctoral students. Some PhDs later returned to Vietnam to work and serve in universities and research institutes.
Professor Pham Quang Hung is one of the members who actively participates in the scientific activities of the Meet Vietnam Association to organize international seminars and conferences in Vietnam.
Professor Hung and Professor Tran Thanh Van participated in connecting the international scientific community with the Vietnamese scientific community. In addition, Professor Hung is also a member of the scientific council at the IFIRSE Institute for Interdisciplinary Scientific Research and Education under the ICISE Center.
For the ICISE Center, Professor Pham Quang Hung participated from the first days of project launch, groundbreaking, and inauguration. During the center’s major activities, Professor Hung always returned home to attend.
“Prof. Hung is the person who twice brought the PASCOS conference – particles, strings and cosmology to the ICISE Center (2016 and 2024). At the 2016 PASCOS conference, Japanese Nobel Prize-winning professor in Physics Takaaki Kajita attended participated and after the conference he helped the ICISE Center establish a Neutrino physics research group,” Mr. Son said.
Also according to the deputy director of ICISE, the Neutrino physics research group at the ICISE Center is the only, pioneering experimental research group in Vietnam participating in international experiments located in Japan.
“On July 8, Professor Pham Quang Hung also returned to ICISE Center to attend the 29th PASCOS – particles, strings and cosmology. Here, the professor shared useful physics knowledge with many people. young friend,” Mr. Son said.
Professor Pham Quang Hung was born in 1950, his hometown is Ninh Binh. From a young age, he and his family migrated to Saigon to live. At the age of 18, he went to Canada, then to the United States to pursue his passion for physics at the Illinois Institute of Technology and earned a doctorate at UCLA (University of California).
In 1982, when he was 32 years old, he was invited to work and research at the University of Virginia – a university founded in 1819 by the “father” of the American Declaration of Independence, Mr. Thomas Jefferson. In Virginia, Professor Hung earned an associate professor degree at the age of 38 and became a full professor at the age of 45.
To date, Professor Pham Quang Hung has nearly 120 important articles and research projects. Many of his studies and discoveries made a big splash, in which his small unification theory between the three forces (weak, strong and electromagnetic) predicted the existence of valuable, yet to be found, elementary particles. very experimental.