Đinh Phạm Thái

1937–2023 · metallurgist and poet · 17th generation, junior branch

Son of Đinh Nho Huề, younger brother of the poet Quỳnh Dao. Professor, doctor of science and People's Teacher, he taught metallurgy at Hanoi Polytechnic University. According to an article in Quân đội nhân dân, at the end of the 1960s he filed a patent for tin refining developed at the Tĩnh Túc mine (Cao Bằng), then, in 2015, one for a bismuth-refining process. A poet, he was admitted to the Vietnam Writers' Association.