Frédéric Pham
French mathematician and physicist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Frédéric Pham is a Vietnamese-French mathematician and mathematical physicist. He is known for the Brieskorn-Pham manifoldss . Education and career Pham studied from 1957 to 1959 at the École polytechnique. From 1961 to 1969 he worked at Saclay Nuclear Research Centre, where he developed his doctoral thesis. In addition, during those years, he attended the seminar conducted by René Thom at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques . In 1969 Pham received his Ph.D. with supervisor Raymond Stora from Saclay with thesis Singularités des processus de diffusion multiple. He became in 1970 a professor at the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis and retired there in 2001 as professor emeritus. He was a visiting professor in Hanoi for the academic year 1979–1980. He was a frequent visitor at the Institut Fourier in Grenoble.