My Hang V. Huynh (born 1962) is a Vietnamese-American chemist in the High Explosives Science and Technology Group at
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos National Laboratory (often shortened as Los Alamos and LANL) is one of the sixteen research and development laboratories of the United States Department of Energy (DOE), located a short distance northwest of Santa Fe, New Mexico, ...
. Huynh's research has led to the creation of "Green Primary Explosives" which are "designed to replace traditional mercury and lead-based explosives and reduce damaging side-effects to the environment and human health."
[My Hang V. Huynh '91 Named MacArthur Fellow, http://encompass.geneseo.edu/, accessed on 10-2-2007]
Life
Huynh received degrees from
SUNY Geneseo
The State University of New York College at Geneseo (SUNY Geneseo, Geneseo State College or, colloquially, "Geneseo") is a public liberal arts college in Geneseo, New York. It is part of the State University of New York (SUNY) system. The colle ...
(B.A. and B.S.) and
SUNY Buffalo (Ph.D.) in 1991 and 1998 respectively. In 2007 Huynh received two major awards in recognition of her work: the
E.O. Lawrence Award for exceptional contributions to the national, economic and energy security of the United States, and she was named to the
MacArthur Fellows Program; an award known as the "genius grant."
Outlining her work, the MacArthur Foundation explained the significance of her findings:
References
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21st-century American chemists
MacArthur Fellows
1962 births
Living people
American people of Vietnamese descent