Professor Hidehiko Tamaki

First announcement for the academic year 1997-1998

This is to announce that Professor Hidehiko Tamaki (born in 1909) - Professor Emeritus of the University of Tokyo - has decided to offer an annual award to the best graduated students in physics of the universities in Vietnam. The award by Prof. Tamaki, which hereafter will be referred to as the Tamaki's Award, has been established solely on the personal budget of Prof. H. Tamaki based on his goodwill to encourage the young talents in Vietnam to devote themselves to basic research in physics. For the academic year 1997 - 1998 the Tamaki's Award, will be offered to 10 best graduate students from 5 universities in Vietnam in the list below. The Tamaki's award amounts to 50,000 (fifty thousands) Japanese yens per student. The candidate to the Tamaki's award must satisfy the following criteria:

• The candidate must be one of two best students in physics, who has been graduated with highest scores in the final exams in the academic year 1997-1998 within one of five universities listed below. The highest scores must be at least at the level "excellent" or higher from the four levels: "fair", "good", "excellent" and "with distinction".
• The candidate must enter the master course in physics in the following academic year 1998-1999.
• The candidate must be the citizen of the Socialist Republic Vietnam.

For the academic year 1997-1998 each university from the five universities listed below is invited to recommend two candidates to the Tamaki's Award:

1. The Hanoi University of Natural Sciences;

2. The Hanoi Polytechnics University;

3. The University of Hue;

4. The University of Can Tho;

5. The University of Ho Chi Minh city.

The recommendation must include the following items:

1. An official letter from the university, certifying the criteria of its two candidates are matched.

2. A short biography with photo of each candidate including his (her) home address with telephone, fax numbers and e-mail, if available, so that a direct contact with the candidate can be accessible.

The recommendation should be sent to the contact person of the Tamaki's Award:

After receiving the recommendation a screening procedure will be performed. Upon the approval of the award recipients, Prof. H. Tamaki will send his answer to the university of the award recipients and to the recipients themselves. The time and place of handing the Tamaki's Award will be determined in the second announcement.

The five universities in the list are kindly requested to inform this first announcement to all of their students in the beginning of the academic year 1997-1998.