Đinh Nho Kiểu

20th c.

Founding teacher of the elite maths–physics streams

Born by the Ngàn Phố river in Sơn Hòa (Hương Sơn), he graduated in physics from the Vinh Teachers' College (1972), where he was kept on to teach, until an obscure local report cancelled his doctoral studies in Germany in 1980. Back home teaching at the Lê Hữu Trác high school, he joined the Hà Tĩnh school for gifted students in October 1991 — past fifty, arriving through the floods — and founded its streams of excellence in mathematics and physics (now Trường THPT Chuyên Hà Tĩnh). Taken by cancer on 13 June 2004, he still kept in his pocket the list of his eight national-prize students; the school's annals honour him under the title “Teacher Đinh Nho Kiểu — he who remains in our memories”.

Born

about 1940 — Sơn Hòa, Hương Sơn, Hà Tĩnh

Died

June 13, 2004 — Hà Tĩnh