French President Nicolas Sarkozy has conferred the order of the Legion d’honneur on Professor Ngo Bao Chau at the Elysee Palace.

The order was directly presented to him on February 27, said Chau.

The decree in this connection was signed on April 22, 2011, to honour Professor Chau’s great contributions to the French and Vietnamese education.

In 2010 he won the renowned Fields medal for his solution to a mathematic problem that remained unresolved for 30 years.

Source: VOV