(VOV) - Professor Ngo Bao Chau is among 220 scholars, scientists, writers, artists, businessmen and leaders to become new members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS).  They are all winners of national and international awards including the National Medal of Science, the Lasker Award, the Pulitzer and the Shaw prizes, and the Fields Medal. The new academicians will be inducted at a ceremony on October 6, at the Academy's headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Prof. Chau is the first Vietnamese mathematician who has received the Fields Medal for his project to prove the fundamental lemma for automorphic forms as proposed by Robert Langlands. Born in Hanoi in 1972, Chau participated in the 29th and 30th International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) and became the first Vietnamese student to win two IMO gold medals.