VietNamNet Bridge – Professors Sheldon Glashow and David Gross as Nobel prize winners will host talks in two leading universities based in HCMC on August 10.

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Sheldon Glashow with a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979 will host the topic A Parable of the Pure and the Practical and Why We Must Pursue Basic Scientific Research at 2 p.m. at the HCMC University of Technology (268 Ly Thuong Kiet St., Dist. 10).

He speaks in his abstract: “Many representatives of government, industry and academia find undirected research in particle physics, mathematics, cosmology, low-temperature physics and many other basic sciences to be useless and expensive endeavors that consume resources rather than promote economic growth and human welfare... They are wrong! Had Faraday, Rontgen and Hertz focused on solving the “real problems”’ of their day, we would have waited much longer for electric motors, X-rays and radios. My talk demonstrates the vital importance of basic research.”

David Gross with a Nobel Prize in Physics in 2004 will talk about The Future of Physics at 9 a.m. at the HCMC University of Science (227 Nguyen Van Cu St., Dist. 5). He says: “In this talk I discuss 25 questions that might guide physics, in the broadest sense, over the next 25 years. The questions range from cosmology to biophysics.”

Both Nobel winning professors are among the five laureates who come to Vietnam to attend the Meeting Vietnam conferences on physics and astrophysics from July 28 to August 17 in the central city of Quy Nhon in Binh Dinh Province.

Source: SGT