VietNamNet Bridge – The central Binh Dinh Province received its first-ever Science Avenue following a naming ceremony co-organised by provincial People’s Committee and the International Centre for Interdisciplinary Science and Education (ICISE) on Thursday.

Professor Gerard’t Hooft (second, right) and Professor Tran Thanh Van (first right) have a chat following a ceremony held to name the Science Avenue in coastal city of Quy Nhon. — Photo tuoitre.vn

The Science Avenue connects National Highway 1D and the science and education urban area located in Zone II in coastal city of Quy Nhon’s Ghenh Rang Ward. The 192ha urban area is home to the ICISE, a scientific space complex and research institutes. 

Speaking at the ceremony, co-owner of 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics Professor Gerard’t Hooft said it was his honour to partake in affixing the Science Avenue plate on the road. The Dutch professor said he is convinced that the road will welcome many more scientists.  

Construction of the avenue began in 2013. 

As the President of Rencontres du Vietnam, Prof. Hooft is in Viet Nam to attend a scientific event on cosmography in Quy Nhon City this week. 

Chairman of the Meet Vietnam Organisation, Professor Tran Thanh Van said: "On such a small road there is a big spirit to develop science.” 

“Similarly, each of us, though small, is full of giant ideas and fond of discovering giant things. For that road to develop forever, it is essential to build a science avenue: a science urban area strongly developing on behalf of the future," Prof. Van added. 

The avenue leads to a valley where the Binh Dinh Province’s People’s Committee has set aside a 200ha zone for the first science urban area in Viet Nam and the region, designed by French architect Jean François Milou, Tuoi tre (Youth) reported.

VNS