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Hoang Thi Than

August 25, 2023

Hoàng Thị Thân (born in 1944 at Phú Cường (Thủ Dâù Một, South Viêt Nam)) is the first woman to graduate from the Department of Geological Engineering of Laval University (Quebec, Canada), the first female Vietnamese geological engineer and archeologist. She is also a boat person.

Biography Edit

1950–1979 Edit

Her father was from Hai Duong (North Viet Nam), her mother from Nghê An (Centre Viet Nam), Hoàng T. T grew up in Saigon (Hô Chi Minh City). She studied at the elementary school of Da Kao and at the high school of Gia Long (currently Nguyễn thị Minh Khai), which are the all-women’s schools. In 1964, after getting high school diplomas I and II, she attended the first year of the politic-business college (Chính trị Kinh doanh), newly founded at University of Đà Lạt (300 km northeast Saigon).

In 1965, she got a scholarship granted by the Canadian government for Laval University (Quebec). Among different proposed matters (chemistry, electricity, geology, mechanic), she chose geology. However, there was only geological engineering at Laval University. She was the only woman in her class with 12 other young men. On the top of this, were added very busy schedule and difficulty relative to two foreign languages (French and English). Furthermore, the Canadian mining law at this time kept women out of the mine, so she could not make training course. After four years of study, she was the first graduated woman of the Department of Geological Engineering of Laval University.[1]

In June 1969, Hoàng T. T. returned to Viet Nam and three months later she started to work at the Geological Survey of Saigon, which depended on the Ministry of Economy of that time. In this survey, there were two French expert geologists. One took her on the field to explain the geology of the country. The other passed on his experience about the mineral study by X-rays to her. The first expert, Henri Fontaine, became, from 1971 to 1973, director of her thesis of engineering doctor, which was carried on the study of the clays of southern Viet Nam and their industrial uses and on the history of the geological surveys of Indochina (1898-1953) and of Republic of Viet Nam (1953-1973).[2] Many small deposits, almost kaolin, were during longtime exploited for making porcelain or ceramic products, as well as bricks and roofing tiles. On the view of mineralogy, these clays were unknown. With the help of a diffractometer, Hoàng T. T. analyzed about a hundred samples of clays from diverse origins: kaolin from alluvions of ancient Quaternary (Province of Bình Dương, Biên Hoà) ),[3] the clays of recent alluvions (different localities between Mekong and Đông Nai river), or from the weathering of granite, rhyolite and shale of Đà Lạt area (Province of Lâm Đồng).[4] At the same time, she mentioned for the first time in Viet Nam the existence of bentonite being under a cover of red basaltic earth at Di Linh (Province of Lâm Đồng).[4] Of volcano-lakeside origin, this clay was reported but not analyzed by Edmond Saurin[5] In 1974, she discovered the same bentonite at Bảo Lộc area (Province of Lâm Đồng)(mixed with fragments of brown coal) and early 1975 at Tuy Hoà area (Province of Khánh Hòa). The study of these samples was not published because of politic events.

Hoàng T. T. often accompanied Dr H. Fontaine in his archeological researches. In 1971, they discovered and excavated a funeral jars site at Phú Hoà (Province of Đồng Nai).[6][7] Dated roughly 500 years B.C.,[6] this site belongs to Sa Huynh culture. The study of this site permitted her to become the first Vietnamese woman archeologist.[8] In 1974, General Agency of Oil-Gas and Mineral Resources (Tổng cục Dâù Khí và Khoáng Sản) was founded and divided in different departments, of which the Centre of Geological Research (former Geological Survey) which included three surveys: research, chemical laboratory, library & geological museum. She was required to accept to be chief of the latter (library & geological museum), to keep her X-ray lab and her research work. Between 1972 and 1974, she gave some lectures at two Universities of Huế (about 700 km northeast Saigon) and of Cần Thơ (about 150 km southwest Saigon).

On 1 May 1975, the communists took power over South Viet Nam. Hoàng T.T. participated in a group of street sweepers and market cleaners near her home. All former state employees and the former military had to follow a political re-education. The duration of these courses varied from three or ten days in their survey, to one month in a camp. The latter was reserved for former chiefs of survey, directors…and military officers. Being former chief of survey, she had to go to a camp in theory for one month (in reality it was indefinite). The day before her departure, without explanation, she was authorized to stay and to follow three days of politic re-education. During four years, except some short trips on the field with new colleagues (geologists and archaeologists) from the North, she could make nothing else.

1979–2009 Edit

In early May 1979, to seize a place on a boat the departure of which was imminent, with the agreement of her mother, she left her family with a tiny bag. Four or five days later, her boat arrived in southern Malaysia (Kota Tinggi). She accepted to be interpreter and was elected leader of her boat as well as the whole camp reaching about a thousand boat people. A month and half later, all boat people were moved to another camp at Mersing where three thousands or so refugees overcrowded into an ancient football field. One day, half of them were sent back to the sea, the other half lived in fear. July 1979, a French delegation (the only foreign delegation because the camp was unknown by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) came there to choose who had a residence certificate in France and isolated children (their parents stayed in Viet Nam). As all other boat leaders, she had to present to them who they looked for. Whereas she did not demand anything for her, these French men told they could not take her into France because she had no residence certificate. Two days later, the French men came back to propose taking her in France. With surprise, she accepted this offer though she hoped inside her to return to Canada or to rejoin her brothers in the United States.

31 August 1979, she landed on Paris with flip flops, her bag and a 20 US dollar banknote offered by a Malay officer. October of the same year, getting a scholarship of University of Paris (Sorbonne) for preparing a thesis, she joined the Albert de Lapparent Geological Institute (Institut catholique de Paris) and tried to make its X ray lab working again.

Accepting the first job offer, on 10 March 1980 she took up her new career in Cogéma (becoming Areva in September 2001). France and Canada did not mutually recognize each other’s diploma (until Dominique de Villepin (French prime minister 2005–2007) signed an agreement with the Canadian government), this was not followed by large French companies, so Hoàng T. T. was engaged as engineer taking function of documentary geologist to prepare a weekly review of specialized press in the Survey of Diversification; she later became analyst of metal market for the Survey of Economic Study, and finally chargée de mission of the Direction of Financial Strategy and Economic Study. She produced many study reports on different subjects.

Since 2009 Edit

From the beginning of her retirement, she devoted her time to the research in cooperation with her former director of thesis, Dr Henri Fontaine and some French and Thaï geologists. Of this cooperation, eight scientific papers were published on the geology of Thailand.

Bibliography Edit

  • 1971 – Fontaine H. et Hoang T. T. - Alluvions anciennes du Nam Phân septentrional. Arch. Géol. Viet Nam, 14 : 145-168, 4 pl., Saigon.
  • 1972 - Note sur des argiles du Viet Nam méridional. Arch. Géol. Viet Nam, 15 : 25-65, 3 pl., Saigon.
  • 1972 – Fontaine H., Bui K.H., Hoang T.T., et al. – Eau minérale dans les environs de Phuoc Lê. Remarque sur la géologie de cette région. Arch. Géol. Viet Nam, 15 : 145-148, Saigon.
  • 1972 – Fontaine H. et Hoang T.T. – Carte géologique au 1/25 000 : feuilles de Biên Hoa et Phu Cuong. Institut Géographique, Da Lat (Viet Nam).
  • 1973 – Deuxième note sur des argiles du Viet Nam méridional. Arch. Géol. Viet Nam, 17 : 57-66, Saigon.
  • 1973 – Le Service Géologique de l’Indochine (1898-1953)_Le Service Géologique de la République du Viet Nam (1953-1973). Bull. Soc. Et. Indoch., nouv. série, 48(4) : 609-614, Saigon.
  • 1975 – Fontaine H. et Hoang T.T. – Nouvelle note sur le champ de jarres funéraires de Phu Hoa, avec une remarque sur la crémation au Viet Nam. Bull. Soc. Et. Indoch., nouv. série, 50(1) : 7-73, 6 pl., Saigon.
  • 2003 – La première diplômée du Département de génie géologique de l’Université Laval (1965-1969). Géoscope. Journ. Info. Départ. Géol. & Génie géol. Uni. Laval, 4(3) : 5-6, Québec.
  • 2007 – Fontaine H., Hoang T.T. et al. – Permian limestones of Surat Thani Province, Peninsular Thailand. Geothai 07, International conference on geology of Thailand: 221-228, 4pl.
  • 2009 – Fontaine H., Hoang T.T. et al. – Paleontology and stratigraphy of the Pang Mapha-Ban Na Wai region, Northwest Thailand: paleogeographical implications. Publication of the Department of Mineral Resources, August 2009: 1-161, 39 pl..
  • 2009 – Fontaine H., Hoang T.T. et al. – Limestone exposures south of Phetchabun, mainly in the 1:50 000 Ban Na Chaliang sheet, Central Thailand. Publication of the Department of Mineral Resources, August 2009: 163-167, 12 pl..
  • 2011 – Fontaine H., Chonglakmani C., Hoang T.T. et al. – Devonian limestone in northern Laos along Mekong River. World Conference on Paleontology and Stratigraphy, Nakhon Ratchasima. Program and Abstracts, 61.
  • 2012 – Fontaine H., Hoang T.T. et al. – North Thailand 1-Very fossiliferous limestone belonging to the end of the Permian (Upper-Chianghsingian) in Wiang Sa area. 2-Another Upper Permian limestone in Phrea area. Journal of Science and Technology, Mahasarakham University, 3(1): 51-62, 6 pl..
  • 2012 – Fontaine H., Kavinate S., Hoang T.T. and Vachard D. – Permian limestone of Peninsula and western Thailand in Khao Yoi, Cha-Am and Thong Pha Phum areas. Nat. Hist. Bull. Siam Soc., 58: 39-47, 3 pl..
  • 2013 – Fontaine H., Hoang T.T. et al. – Upper Permian (Late Chianghsingian) marine strata in Nan Province, northern Thailand. Journ. Asian Earth Sc., 76: 115-119.
  • 2013 – Fontaine H., Hoang T.T. et al. – Wide extension of Carboniferous limestone in Northwest Thailand with an interesting stratigraphy. Special Issue of the Journal of the Geological Society of Thailand, 65 p., 24 pl.

References Edit

  1. ^ Hoang Thi Than, 2003, "La première diplômée du Département de génie géologique de l'Université Laval (1965-1969", Géoscope, Journ. Info. Départ. Géol. & Génie géol., Uni. Laval, v.4, n°3, pp. 5–6, Québec.
  2. ^ Hoang Thi Than, 1973, "Le Service géologique de l’Indochine (1898-1953)_Le Service géologique de la République du Viêt Nam (1953-1973) ", Bull. Etudes Indoch., nouv. série, v.48, n°4, pp.609-614, Saigon.
  3. ^ Fontaine Henri et Hoang Thi Than, 1971, "Alluvions anciennes du Nam phần septentrional", Arch. Géol. Viêt Nam, n°14, pp.145-168, 4 pl., Saigon.
  4. ^ a b Hoang Thi Than,1972, "Note sur des argiles du Viêt Nam méridional", Arch. Géol. Viêt Nam, n°15, pp.25-65, 3 pl., Saigon.
  5. ^ Saurin E., 1964, "Carte géologique Viêt Nam-Cambodge-Laos au 1/500 000. Feuille de Nha Trang", Notice explicative, pp.69, Institut géographique, Đà Lạt.
  6. ^ a b Fontaine H., 1972, "Nouveau champs de jarres dans la province de Long Khanh", Bull. Soc. Et. Indoch., nouv. série, v.47, n°3, pp.397-486, 10 pl., Saigon.
  7. ^ Fontaine H. et Hoang T.T., 1975, "Nouvelle note sur le champ de jarres funéraires de Phu Hoa, avec une remarque sur la crémation au Viet Nam", Bull. Soc. Et. Indoch., nouv. série, v.50, n°1, pp.7-73, 6 pl., Saigon.
  8. ^ Pham Duc Manh, 1996, "Proto-history and pre-history of the Eastern part of Nam Bô_past and modern perceptions ", Vietnamese Studies, Special_ Archaeolocal Data II, n°2, pp. 65-119, 6 fig., quoted page 74, Ha Noi.

External links Edit

  • Université Laval
  • Bibliothèque_Missions Etrangères de Paris
  • Natural history Bulletin of the Siam Society

August 25, 2023
hoang, than, hoàng, thị, thân, born, 1944, phú, cường, thủ, dâù, một, south, viêt, first, woman, graduate, from, department, geological, engineering, laval, university, quebec, canada, first, female, vietnamese, geological, engineer, archeologist, also, boat, . Hoang Thị Than born in 1944 at Phu Cường Thủ Dau Một South Viet Nam is the first woman to graduate from the Department of Geological Engineering of Laval University Quebec Canada the first female Vietnamese geological engineer and archeologist She is also a boat person Contents 1 Biography 1 1 1950 1979 1 2 1979 2009 1 3 Since 2009 2 Bibliography 3 References 4 External linksBiography Edit1950 1979 Edit Her father was from Hai Duong North Viet Nam her mother from Nghe An Centre Viet Nam Hoang T T grew up in Saigon Ho Chi Minh City She studied at the elementary school of Da Kao and at the high school of Gia Long currently Nguyễn thị Minh Khai which are the all women s schools In 1964 after getting high school diplomas I and II she attended the first year of the politic business college Chinh trị Kinh doanh newly founded at University of Đa Lạt 300 km northeast Saigon In 1965 she got a scholarship granted by the Canadian government for Laval University Quebec Among different proposed matters chemistry electricity geology mechanic she chose geology However there was only geological engineering at Laval University She was the only woman in her class with 12 other young men On the top of this were added very busy schedule and difficulty relative to two foreign languages French and English Furthermore the Canadian mining law at this time kept women out of the mine so she could not make training course After four years of study she was the first graduated woman of the Department of Geological Engineering of Laval University 1 In June 1969 Hoang T T returned to Viet Nam and three months later she started to work at the Geological Survey of Saigon which depended on the Ministry of Economy of that time In this survey there were two French expert geologists One took her on the field to explain the geology of the country The other passed on his experience about the mineral study by X rays to her The first expert Henri Fontaine became from 1971 to 1973 director of her thesis of engineering doctor which was carried on the study of the clays of southern Viet Nam and their industrial uses and on the history of the geological surveys of Indochina 1898 1953 and of Republic of Viet Nam 1953 1973 2 Many small deposits almost kaolin were during longtime exploited for making porcelain or ceramic products as well as bricks and roofing tiles On the view of mineralogy these clays were unknown With the help of a diffractometer Hoang T T analyzed about a hundred samples of clays from diverse origins kaolin from alluvions of ancient Quaternary Province of Binh Dương Bien Hoa 3 the clays of recent alluvions different localities between Mekong and Đong Nai river or from the weathering of granite rhyolite and shale of Đa Lạt area Province of Lam Đồng 4 At the same time she mentioned for the first time in Viet Nam the existence of bentonite being under a cover of red basaltic earth at Di Linh Province of Lam Đồng 4 Of volcano lakeside origin this clay was reported but not analyzed by Edmond Saurin 5 In 1974 she discovered the same bentonite at Bảo Lộc area Province of Lam Đồng mixed with fragments of brown coal and early 1975 at Tuy Hoa area Province of Khanh Hoa The study of these samples was not published because of politic events Hoang T T often accompanied Dr H Fontaine in his archeological researches In 1971 they discovered and excavated a funeral jars site at Phu Hoa Province of Đồng Nai 6 7 Dated roughly 500 years B C 6 this site belongs to Sa Huynh culture The study of this site permitted her to become the first Vietnamese woman archeologist 8 In 1974 General Agency of Oil Gas and Mineral Resources Tổng cục Dau Khi va Khoang Sản was founded and divided in different departments of which the Centre of Geological Research former Geological Survey which included three surveys research chemical laboratory library amp geological museum She was required to accept to be chief of the latter library amp geological museum to keep her X ray lab and her research work Between 1972 and 1974 she gave some lectures at two Universities of Huế about 700 km northeast Saigon and of Cần Thơ about 150 km southwest Saigon On 1 May 1975 the communists took power over South Viet Nam Hoang T T participated in a group of street sweepers and market cleaners near her home All former state employees and the former military had to follow a political re education The duration of these courses varied from three or ten days in their survey to one month in a camp The latter was reserved for former chiefs of survey directors and military officers Being former chief of survey she had to go to a camp in theory for one month in reality it was indefinite The day before her departure without explanation she was authorized to stay and to follow three days of politic re education During four years except some short trips on the field with new colleagues geologists and archaeologists from the North she could make nothing else 1979 2009 Edit In early May 1979 to seize a place on a boat the departure of which was imminent with the agreement of her mother she left her family with a tiny bag Four or five days later her boat arrived in southern Malaysia Kota Tinggi She accepted to be interpreter and was elected leader of her boat as well as the whole camp reaching about a thousand boat people A month and half later all boat people were moved to another camp at Mersing where three thousands or so refugees overcrowded into an ancient football field One day half of them were sent back to the sea the other half lived in fear July 1979 a French delegation the only foreign delegation because the camp was unknown by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees UNHCR came there to choose who had a residence certificate in France and isolated children their parents stayed in Viet Nam As all other boat leaders she had to present to them who they looked for Whereas she did not demand anything for her these French men told they could not take her into France because she had no residence certificate Two days later the French men came back to propose taking her in France With surprise she accepted this offer though she hoped inside her to return to Canada or to rejoin her brothers in the United States 31 August 1979 she landed on Paris with flip flops her bag and a 20 US dollar banknote offered by a Malay officer October of the same year getting a scholarship of University of Paris Sorbonne for preparing a thesis she joined the Albert de Lapparent Geological Institute Institut catholique de Paris and tried to make its X ray lab working again Accepting the first job offer on 10 March 1980 she took up her new career in Cogema becoming Areva in September 2001 France and Canada did not mutually recognize each other s diploma until Dominique de Villepin French prime minister 2005 2007 signed an agreement with the Canadian government this was not followed by large French companies so Hoang T T was engaged as engineer taking function of documentary geologist to prepare a weekly review of specialized press in the Survey of Diversification she later became analyst of metal market for the Survey of Economic Study and finally chargee de mission of the Direction of Financial Strategy and Economic Study She produced many study reports on different subjects Since 2009 Edit From the beginning of her retirement she devoted her time to the research in cooperation with her former director of thesis Dr Henri Fontaine and some French and Thai geologists Of this cooperation eight scientific papers were published on the geology of Thailand Bibliography Edit1971 Fontaine H et Hoang T T Alluvions anciennes du Nam Phan septentrional Arch Geol Viet Nam 14 145 168 4 pl Saigon 1972 Note sur des argiles du Viet Nam meridional Arch Geol Viet Nam 15 25 65 3 pl Saigon 1972 Fontaine H Bui K H Hoang T T et al Eau minerale dans les environs de Phuoc Le Remarque sur la geologie de cette region Arch Geol Viet Nam 15 145 148 Saigon 1972 Fontaine H et Hoang T T Carte geologique au 1 25 000 feuilles de Bien Hoa et Phu Cuong Institut Geographique Da Lat Viet Nam 1973 Deuxieme note sur des argiles du Viet Nam meridional Arch Geol Viet Nam 17 57 66 Saigon 1973 Le Service Geologique de l Indochine 1898 1953 Le Service Geologique de la Republique du Viet Nam 1953 1973 Bull Soc Et Indoch nouv serie 48 4 609 614 Saigon 1975 Fontaine H et Hoang T T Nouvelle note sur le champ de jarres funeraires de Phu Hoa avec une remarque sur la cremation au Viet Nam Bull Soc Et Indoch nouv serie 50 1 7 73 6 pl Saigon 2003 La premiere diplomee du Departement de genie geologique de l Universite Laval 1965 1969 Geoscope Journ Info Depart Geol amp Genie geol Uni Laval 4 3 5 6 Quebec 2007 Fontaine H Hoang T T et al Permian limestones of Surat Thani Province Peninsular Thailand Geothai 07 International conference on geology of Thailand 221 228 4pl 2009 Fontaine H Hoang T T et al Paleontology and stratigraphy of the Pang Mapha Ban Na Wai region Northwest Thailand paleogeographical implications Publication of the Department of Mineral Resources August 2009 1 161 39 pl 2009 Fontaine H Hoang T T et al Limestone exposures south of Phetchabun mainly in the 1 50 000 Ban Na Chaliang sheet Central Thailand Publication of the Department of Mineral Resources August 2009 163 167 12 pl 2011 Fontaine H Chonglakmani C Hoang T T et al Devonian limestone in northern Laos along Mekong River World Conference on Paleontology and Stratigraphy Nakhon Ratchasima Program and Abstracts 61 2012 Fontaine H Hoang T T et al North Thailand 1 Very fossiliferous limestone belonging to the end of the Permian Upper Chianghsingian in Wiang Sa area 2 Another Upper Permian limestone in Phrea area Journal of Science and Technology Mahasarakham University 3 1 51 62 6 pl 2012 Fontaine H Kavinate S Hoang T T and Vachard D Permian limestone of Peninsula and western Thailand in Khao Yoi Cha Am and Thong Pha Phum areas Nat Hist Bull Siam Soc 58 39 47 3 pl 2013 Fontaine H Hoang T T et al Upper Permian Late Chianghsingian marine strata in Nan Province northern Thailand Journ Asian Earth Sc 76 115 119 2013 Fontaine H Hoang T T et al Wide extension of Carboniferous limestone in Northwest Thailand with an interesting stratigraphy Special Issue of the Journal of the Geological Society of Thailand 65 p 24 pl References Edit Hoang Thi Than 2003 La premiere diplomee du Departement de genie geologique de l Universite Laval 1965 1969 Geoscope Journ Info Depart Geol amp Genie geol Uni Laval v 4 n 3 pp 5 6 Quebec Hoang Thi Than 1973 Le Service geologique de l Indochine 1898 1953 Le Service geologique de la Republique du Viet Nam 1953 1973 Bull Etudes Indoch nouv serie v 48 n 4 pp 609 614 Saigon Fontaine Henri et Hoang Thi Than 1971 Alluvions anciennes du Nam phần septentrional Arch Geol Viet Nam n 14 pp 145 168 4 pl Saigon a b Hoang Thi Than 1972 Note sur des argiles du Viet Nam meridional Arch Geol Viet Nam n 15 pp 25 65 3 pl Saigon Saurin E 1964 Carte geologique Viet Nam Cambodge Laos au 1 500 000 Feuille de Nha Trang Notice explicative pp 69 Institut geographique Đa Lạt a b Fontaine H 1972 Nouveau champs de jarres dans la province de Long Khanh Bull Soc Et Indoch nouv serie v 47 n 3 pp 397 486 10 pl Saigon Fontaine H et Hoang T T 1975 Nouvelle note sur le champ de jarres funeraires de Phu Hoa avec une remarque sur la cremation au Viet Nam Bull Soc Et Indoch nouv serie v 50 n 1 pp 7 73 6 pl Saigon Pham Duc Manh 1996 Proto history and pre history of the Eastern part of Nam Bo past and modern perceptions Vietnamese Studies Special Archaeolocal Data II n 2 pp 65 119 6 fig quoted page 74 Ha Noi External links EditUniversite Laval Bibliotheque Missions Etrangeres de Paris Natural history Bulletin of the Siam Society Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Hoang Thi Than amp oldid 1110115506, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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