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Female scientists hailed for applied research

Female Vietnamese scientists have made practical contributions to the nation’s socio-economic, scientific and technological development, a State leader said.
Female Vietnamese scientists have madepractical contributions to the nation’s socio-economic, scientific andtechnological development, a State leader said.

Vice State President Nguyen Thi Doan hailed the role female scientistshave thus far played in the national construction and development causewhile addressing the 25th anniversary of the Vietnam Kovalevskaia Prizein Hanoi on Mar. 12.

She said she hoped female scientists, apart from doing research, woulddevote their enthusiasm to training young generations for the sake ofthe country’s future.

Over the past 25 years, the nation has welcomed the research of femaleVietnamese scientists and its application in an array of fields, suchas crossbreeding plants and animals, producing livestock and humanvaccines, creating bio-products and making the best use ofpharmaceuticals in service of the community.

At the event, the Vietnam Kovalevskaia Committee presented theKovalevskaia Prize 2008-09 to associate professors Pham Thi Thuy, LeThu Thuy and Phan Thi Tuoi.

Senior researcher Dr. Pham Thi Thuy is currently the head of the insectlaboratory of the Vegetation Protection Institute of the VietnamInstitute for Agriculture Research. She has conducted 94 scientificresearch projects and taken part in 26 relating to the utility ofbiological-measurements in plant protection.

Dr. Le Thi Thuy, deputy head of the Animal Husbandry Institute’sScientific and International Cooperation Department, is the author of 9books, 104 scientific works on animal husbandry, and projects topreserve varieties of goose and chicken typical of Vietnam.

Dr. Phan Thi Tuoi, former rector of the Ho Chi Minh City University ofTechnology, is a pioneer in Vietnam in research into natural languageprocessing, machine translation and text processing. Apart from leadingeight scientific research projects, Tuoi has also taken part incompiling textbooks on IT, contributing greatly to the industry’sgrowth in Vietnam.

Since its inception in 1985, the Kovalevskaia Prize, named afterRussian mathematician Sophia Kovalevskaia, has been presented to 15collectives and 34 female scientists in Vietnam in recognition of theiroutstanding achievements in the natural sciences and the application ofresearch.

On the occasion, Vice State President Nguyen Thi Doan honoured Prof. DrAnn Koblitz and Neal Koblitz, who founded and mobilized funding for theKovalevskaia Prize, with the Vietnamese State’s Friendship Order./.
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