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Young scientist becomes first Vietnamese awarded by UK Royal Aeronautical Society

With the Young Persons’ Achievement Award, Dr. Nguyen Huyen Duc has become the first Vietnamese scientist to receive the prize from the UK’s Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS).
Young scientist becomes first Vietnamese awarded by UK Royal Aeronautical Society ảnh 1Dr. Nguyen Huyen Duc was granted the Young Persons’ Achievement Award 2022 by the UK’s Royal Aeronautical Society. (Source: VietnamPlus)
London (VNA) – With the Young Persons’Achievement Award, Dr. Nguyen Huyen Duc has become the first Vietnamesescientist to receive the prize from the UK’s Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS).

Duc is the only to win the RAeS’s highest award for thoseunder 30 this year.

The RAeS awards are amongthe world’s most long-standing and prestigious prizes reserved for individualsor teams with exceptional achievements or inventions in the aerospace industry.

The scientist, born in Hanoi in 1995, said he hopes more Vietnamese scientists and engineers will be recognised by internationalassociations and organisations.

Hereceived a Master of Engineering degree in 2019 and a Doctor of Philosophydegree in 2021 from the Department of Aerospace Engineering atthe University of Bristol.

Hisresearch outputs include eight articles published on journals of Quartile 1,which are the top publications of a subject area, and 10 contributions tointernational aerospace conferences in the UK, the US, Germany, Italy, andSwitzerland.

Foundedin 1866, the RAeS gathers aerospace organisations and enterprises around theworld, including Boeing, Airbus, BAE Systems,the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the Asian BusinessAviation Association, the UK Space Agency, and the US FederalAviation Administration./.
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