Đàm Thanh Sơn

In this Vietnamese name, the surname is Đàm. In accordance with Vietnamese custom, this person should be referred to by the given name, Sơn.

Dam Thanh Son
Born	1969 (age 54–55) Bac Ninh, North Vietnam
Nationality	Vietnamese
Alma mater	Institute for Nuclear Research High School for Gifted Students, Hanoi University of Science
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.

Early life and education

Born in North Vietnam, Bac Ninh. Sơn attended HUS High School for Gifted Students, where he won gold medal in the International Mathematics Olympiad with an absolute score, and 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
• Bogolyubov Prize, 2019

External links

• Home page at the University of Chicago