Ngo Bao Chau
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Ngô Bảo Châu, born in 1972, is the first Vietnamese mathematician to win the Clay Research Award, one of the most prominent awards in the mathematics society.
Ngô Bảo Châu was born to an intellectual family in Hanoi, Vietnam. His father, Ngô Huy Cẩn, is a physicist at the Vietnam National Institute of Mechanics. At the age of 15, he was admitted into a Mathematics specializing class of the Vietnam National University High school. At grade 11 and 12, Ngo participated respectively in the 29th and 30th International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) and received 2 gold medals. After his high school graduation, the French government offered him a scholarship to the Ecole Normale Supérieure. Then, he received his Ph.D. at the Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay, in 1997 under the direction of professor Gérard Laumon.
In 2004, Ngô Bảo Châu and Gérard Laumon received the Clay Research Award for their proof of the Fundamental Lemma for unitary groups.
For the success, he was recognized as the youngest professor ever in Vietnam.
