General Giap’s daughter, Prof. Vo Hong Anh, passes away
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General Giap’s daughter, Prof. Vo Hong Anh, passes away
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Top-ranking General Vo Nguyen Giap and his daughter, Prof. Vo Hong
Anh.
LookAtVietnam - Professor, Doctor Vo Hong Anh, the daughter of top-
ranking General Vo Nguyen Giap, died on July 18 in the afternoon from
a fatal disease. She was the first female Vietnamese physicist to be
presented with the Kovalevskaia Award.
Hong Anh, 68, was the only daughter of martyr Nguyen Thi Quang Thai
(younger sister of revolutionist Nguyen Thi Minh Khai) and top-ranking
General Vo Nguyen Giap. After her mother died in jail, Hong Anh lived
with her paternal grandmother. She met her father after the August
Revolution 1945.
She graduated from the Lomonosov University’s Physics Faculty in the
former USSR in 1965. She worked at the Dubna Nuclear Research
Institute (former USSR) from 1969-1971.
In 1972, she returned to Vietnam to work at the Hanoi Physics
Institute. She carried out dozens of research works on nuclear
physics.
In 1979, she returned to work at the Dubna Nuclear Research Institute.
In 1982, she successfully defended her doctoral thesis in mathematics-
physics at the institute.
In 1988, Prof., Dr. Vo Hong Anh became the first female physicist of
Vietnam to win the Kovalevskaia Award, Vietnam’s highest sci-tech
award for female scientists.
In her last years, Hong Anh worked for the Vietnam Study Encouragement
Association.
The commemoration anniversary of Hong Anh will be held from 7-9 am,
July 21 at the funeral home of the Defence Ministry, Hanoi.
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