The Humboldt Research Award is given to 100 top scientists each year. They get €80,000 to do research in Germany.

The award is chosen by independent reviewers.

Professor Phung Ho Hai is a math expert.

Hai was good at math at 17. He went to the Soviet Union and later studied in Germany.

He finished his higher doctorate in 2004.

Hai's research is on quantum groups and other topics.

He won the von Kaven Award in 2006 for his work.

Hai was elected to The World Academy of Sciences in 2009.

He was a director and general secretary.

The award shows Vietnam's science is getting better.

The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation was started in 1860.

Hai is the first Vietnamese to win this award.

Other Vietnamese scientists have won awards from the foundation.