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From hand-made toys…

Dinh Tuan was born in Vietnam. During his childhood, he used to make toys for himself. He seemed to be born with a passion to manufacture, which encouraged him to study tirelessly to make new discoveries.

He left Sai Gon (Ho Chi Minh City) for Switzerland to study physic at the age of 17 and then graduated from Lausanne Federal Polytechnic University in 1971. Four years later, after obtaining a biophysical chemistry doctorate at Zurich Federal Technique Institute he left for the USA and has remained there since.

The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) under the US government recognised his first invention in 1987, a life-saving bandage which is tiny and easy to mass produce. It is stuck on the uniforms of workers who work in hazardous environments to record levels of hazardous substances. It takes a person just 11 seconds to know how serious a poison is so they are able to get treatment in time.

The webpage of the Vietnamese Students’ Association in Japan http://www.vysa.jp/ also reported that Doctor Tuan’s findings in gene alternation in the human body are very useful in diagnosing the DNA that causes diabetes and cancer. This system is based on an easy-to-apply-method: “synchronous luminescence”. As a result, diseases can be treated in time without medicines. His method is recognized by many pharmaceutical companies and environmental organisations.

… to easing human pain

Tuan’s disease-diagnosing technique has been applied in various hospitals in the US and big research institutes such as the US National Cancer Institute.

He has around 30 patents and most of his research simply aims to help ease human pain, especially in those who suffer from deadly diseases such as cancer and AIDS.

In 2003, doctor Tuan was honored by the USTPO, together with 3 other Asian-American scientists, in recognition of their great contributions to scientific and medical achievements, especially in helping patients with deadly diseases to cope with severe pain.

Earlier, on May 9, 2002, on the celebration of a traditional day for many Asian communities in the US, J.C. Hayward, the USTPO’s spokeswoman, highly praised the inventions by him and other scientists, making the US one of the countries with the most advanced technology and science worldwide. He was honored twice in 2002.

Doctor Vo Dinh Tuan has won a lot of other international prizes with more than 300 research papers published in scientific magazines.

He is now doing research to help new technologies to make tiny modern medical devices at reasonable prices to reduce the costs of diagnosing diseases and giving treatment.

Other contemporary geniuses

Swiss chemist Albert Hoffman, 101 years old, and an English computer genius, top the Creators Synectics’ list released on October 29. The others in the top 5 are an American investor George Soros, American cartoonist, satirist Matt Groening and former South African President Nelson Mandela.