The Most Famous
ASTRONOMERS from Vietnam
This page contains a list of the greatest Vietnamese Astronomers. The pantheon dataset contains 531 Astronomers, 1 of which were born in Vietnam. This makes Vietnam the birth place of the 56th most number of Astronomers behind Morocco and Romania.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Vietnamese Astronomers of all time. This list of famous Vietnamese Astronomers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Jane Luu (1963 - )
With an HPI of 39.68, Jane Luu is the most famous Vietnamese Astronomer. Her biography has been translated into 26 different languages on wikipedia.
Jane X. Luu (Vietnamese: Lưu Lệ Hằng; born July 1963) is a Vietnamese-American astronomer and defense systems engineer. She was awarded the Kavli Prize (shared with David C. Jewitt and Michael Brown) for 2012 "for discovering and characterizing the Kuiper Belt and its largest members, work that led to a major advance in the understanding of the history of our planetary system". Luu immigrated to the United States as a refugee in 1975, when the South Vietnamese government fell. She and her family lived in refugee camps and motels before they settled in Kentucky, where she had relatives. She graduated from high school as valedictorian and then earned a scholarship to Stanford University, receiving her bachelor's degree in physics in 1984. Working at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at NASA after college inspired her to study astronomy.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as astronomers born between 1963 and 1963. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living astronomers include Jane Luu.
