Trịnh Xuân Thuận (20/09/1948 in Hanoi, Vietnam) is an astrophysicist. He completed his B.S. at the California Institute of Technology, and his Ph.D. at Princeton University. He has taught astronomy at the University of Virginia, where he is a professor, since 1976, and is also a Research Associate at the Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris. Furthermore, he was a founding member of the International Society for Science and Religion. His research has focused on the evolution of galaxies and the chemical composition of the universe, and on compact blue dwarf galaxies. (source : wikipedia)