(VOVworld) – The first Tran Dai Nghia award ceremony took place on Hanoi on Sunday to honor those who have excelled in science and technology and made prominent contributions to Vietnam’s socio-economic development and defense.

The Tran Dai Nghia award ceremony (Photo: VTV)

One of the two recipients of the awards is a project on the application of advanced technology in vaccine production by Prof. Dr. Hoang Thuy Nguyen and late Prof. Dang Duc Trach. The other award winner is a project on production of pure iron ore ad sponge iron from red mud by Dr. Vu Duc Loi and Dr. Nguyen Van Tuan. Prof. Tran Dai Nghia who died in 1997 was a  scientist, a military engineer, and the father of the Vietnam’s defence industry.