1. Which Vietnamese professor was once called "the wisest minister" by Westerners?

  • Professor Nguyen Van Huyen
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  • Professor Ton That Tung
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  • Professor Tran Van Khe
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  • Professor Ta Quang Buu
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Professor Ta Quang Buu was born into a family of teachers in Hoanh Son village, Nam Hoanh commune, Nam Dan district, Nghe An province.

He was the Minister of Defense , Minister of Universities and Vocational High Schools of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, and a National Assembly delegate from the first to the sixth terms (1946-1981).

Professor Ta Quang Buu is considered a true scientist, with profound knowledge in many fields of natural sciences, technology, social sciences and humanities. He is also a manager with strategic vision, and to this day, many issues of science, technology and university education that he oriented more than 30 years ago still have current value.

The famous American mathematician N. Chomsky, after meeting Professor Buu (during the resistance war against America to save the country), had to exclaim in the New York Times : "I have been to many countries but nowhere have I met such a wise minister."

2. Where did this professor study abroad when he was young?

  • Sorbonne University (France)
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  • Oxford University (UK)
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  • Louis Le Grand School (France)
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  • Both A, B and C
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As a child, he was a good student. In 1926, after passing the Thanh Chung exam, Mr. Ta Quang Buu went to study at Buoi School in Hanoi.

In 1929, he passed the native Baccalaureate, the Spanish Baccalaureate in Mathematics... and received a scholarship to study abroad in France.

From 1929 to 1934, he studied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at Louis Le Grand School (France), participated in the Bachelor of Science program at Sorbonne University (France); then won a scholarship to study physics at Oxford University (UK)...

Returning home, he refused to become an official as suggested by the colonial-feudal government. He taught privately and then worked in electricity and water in Thua Thien - Hue. In 1945, at the suggestion of lawyer Phan Anh, he went to Hanoi to join the revolutionary organization. Knowing that Ta Quang Buu was a knowledgeable person, President Ho Chi Minh appointed him as the Chief of the Foreign Affairs Ministry when the Democratic Republic of Vietnam was newly established.

3. During the resistance war against France, Professor Ta Quang Buu participated in researching, manufacturing, and improving what type of weapon?

  • Fire God B40
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  • Bazooka Bullet
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  • Mortar
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  • Both A, B and C
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During the early years of the resistance war against France, Professor Ta Quang Buu, Professor Tran Dai Nghia and the military equipment team researched many types of weapons such as Bazooka bullets (effective in the 1947 Viet Bac campaign), mortars (supporting infantry), matchlock guns and B40 grenades (anti-tank guns).

Professor Ta Quang Buu played an important role in national defense and scientific and technological development, from directing the manufacture of weapons to ensuring information and logistics during the resistance war.

4. Professor Ta Quang Buu was the principal of which university?

  • Hanoi National University of Education
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  • Hanoi University of Science and Technology
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  • Hanoi Medical University
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  • Vietnam National University, Hanoi
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Immediately after peace in the North, Professor Ta Quang Buu switched to working in the field of educational science, was appointed as Principal of Hanoi University of Science and Technology (1956-1961), and was also Vice Chairman and General Secretary of the State Science Committee (1958-1965).

For the first class of lecturers of the school, Professor Ta Quang Buu was the head, the teacher of many generations of teachers, and the one who made great contributions in determining the initial orientations for the construction and long-term development of the University of Technology later on.

5. In which field did Professor Ta Quang Buu leave the biggest mark in his career?

  • Diplomatic
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  • Defense
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  • Science - Higher Education
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  • Economy
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Mr. Ta Quang Buu held many important positions such as Minister of Foreign Affairs in the early period of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, participated in major international conferences such as Dalat, Fontainebleau (1946), Geneva (1954), as well as held the positions of Deputy Minister and Minister of National Defense.

However, his greatest mark was in the field of science and higher education. During the period 1965-1976, when he was Minister of Universities and Vocational Secondary Education, he persistently innovated teaching content according to the motto "most basic, most modern and most suitable to Vietnamese conditions".

He attached great importance to linking teaching with scientific research, encouraging teachers and students to be creative, not just stopping at what they already have but also exploring new things. Thanks to that, the Vietnamese university system, despite difficult circumstances, still had important developments.

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