Eugene H. Trinh

Eugene H Trinh

Middle Life

Trinh went to Nasa in 1999 as a Senior Research Scientist. He studied Fluid Dynamics and Levitation for 20 years. Before he researched for NAS, he was a payload specialist on mission STS-50. This mission occurred in 1992 and lasted 13 days.

Trinh has published over 40 reviewed articles and authored many conferences in the areas Microgravity and Fluid Physics..

Awards and Honors

• Full Tuition Scholarship (Columbia University
• Sheffield Fellowship (Yale University)
• Group Achievement award NASA for flight experiments
• Science Achievement award for Principal Investigator team NASA
• NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal
• NASA Space Flight Medal
• Golden Torch Award

Organizations

• Acoustical Society of America
• American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
• Sigma Xi Research Society
• American Society of Mechanical Engineering
• American Physical Society

Spring Roll Recipe

• Spring roll wrapper
• Carrots
• Pork
• Cabbage
• Mushroom
• Salt and Pepper

Relation: Spring Rolls are eaten in Vietnam and Trinh is from Vietnam.

Eugene Trinh was an astronaut for NASA. He spent 13 days in space orbiting the Earth.

Early Life

Eugene was born in Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City) on September 14, 1950.His original name was Trịnh Hữu Châu, but he changed to Eugene for convenience purposes.His family moved to Paris in 1952.Eugene then moved to the United States when he was 18.

In 1968, Trinh graduated from Lycee Michelet in Paris with a baccalaureate degree. He then went to Columbia University where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in 1972. In 1974, Trinh went to Yale where he earned Masters of Science and Philosophy.

Later Life

Trinh is still working and has not retired. He is the Director of Physical Sciences Research Division in the Biological and Physical Research Enterprise. He lives in McLean, Virginia with his wife Yvette Fabry and his one child.