This is an invention that has been regarded as opening up an endless vision for humanity about the natural world, where both tiny fundamental particles and the vast universe seem to share the same intrinsic nature.
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Professor Jim Cronin and US President Bill Clinton (Photo: physics.adelaide.edu) |
According to information from the Vietnam Physics Association: on the afternoon of August 4, 2006, there will be a presentation titled “Matter and Antimatter in the Universe” at the Nguy Nhu Kon Tum lecture hall (19-Le Thanh Tong, Hanoi), led by Professor Jim Cronin – a Nobel Prize-winning scientist from the United States and the author of the renowned physics discovery concerning the asymmetry of neutral K-mesons.
From a particle physicist researching fundamental particles at an accelerator, this invention has allowed Professor Cronin to become the founder and leader of the international Pierre Auger project, which seeks high-energy cosmic rays.
He has visited Vietnam twice to assist young Vietnamese physicists in participating in the Pierre Auger international project. This time, Professor Jim Cronin comes to Hanoi to present the initial results of the project; it is also an opportunity for him to discuss the relationship between fundamental particles and cosmic space, bridging the micro and macro worlds.
