Trinh Xuan Thuan (1948, Hanoï) is an astrophysicist and writer originating in the Vietnam.

It makes off its studies of Astrophysique to the California Institute Technology (Caltech), then at the university of Princeton to the the United States where it obtained a doctorate in astrophysics.

Since 1976, he is professor of astrophysics at the university of Virginia.

Trinh Xuan Thuan is specialized in the extragalactic Astronomie.

He is member of the Interdisciplinary Université of Paris

Works published

• ways of the light: Physics and metaphysics of clearly-obscure the , Beech, 2007;

• Origins - the nostalgia of the beginnings , Beech, 2003;
• the Infinite one in the palm of the hand , with Matthieu Ricard, the Nile editions, 2000;
• Chaos and the Harmony , Beech, 1998;
• the Destiny of the Universes , Discovered Gallimard, 1992;
• an astrophysicist , Beauchesne-Beech, 1992;
• the secret melody , Beech, 1988;

External bonds

• Official site of Trinh Xuan Thuan

• website Trịnh Xuân Thuận
• Interview butt science and Buddhism
• Ba cái chết cho ngôi sao - Three died for star,
• Determination of the distance from a star céphéide