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Tin Hlaing (writer)

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Tin Hlaing
တင်လှိုင်[1]
Born
Tin Hlaing

1941
NationalityBurmese
Occupation(s)Writer, Professor
Known forfirst Director general of the Department of Atomic Energy, Myanmar
Notable workFounder of the Department of Atomic Energy, Myanmar
SpouseMya Mya Swe
Children3
AwardsMyanmar National Literature Award (2004, 2010, 2019)[2]
Thuta Swesone literary award
Tun Foundation Literature Award 2008

Tin Hlaing (Burmese: တင်လှိုင်; born 1941), is a Burmese writer, translator, professor who is the founder and first Director general of the Department of Atomic Energy, Myanmar.[3][4]

Early life and career

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Tin Hlaing was born in 1941 in Sagaing Region, Monywa District, Ayadaw Township, Thakhot Pinle Village. From 1951 to 1958, he studied at Mandalay Diocesan Thante High School. He continued his education at Mandalay University. He received his Bachelor of Science (Honors) degree in Physics in 1963. In 1972, he received a scholarship from the British Council (Colombo Project) and received his M.Sc. degree from the University of London. In 1967 he received his Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics. He has served as a tautor at Mawlamyine, Monywa and Mandalay Universities for over 30 years.

In 1995, he was transferred to the Myanmar Science and Technology Research Department and became the Director. In 1997, he was founded the Department of Atomic Energy, Myanmar and became its first Director general.

He has been a part-time professor at Yangon Technological University for five years. After retiring in 2001, he still serves as an executive member of the Myanmar Institute of Information Technology. He is also a member of the New York Academy of Sciences.

Literary career

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In his literary work, his pen name is Boe Hlaing.[5] He has authored a number of research papers and two university textbooks (in English). In addition, he also writes articles for magazines.

Published books

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  • Stephen Hawking Essays
  • Kay Oops
  • Famous classic words

Translated books

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  • Ignited Minds
  • Discovery of India
  • Jawaharlal Nehru: The Lightning World History (Vol. 3)

Awards

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Personal life

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He is married to Daw Mya Mya Swe (a retired lecturer in botany) and has three children.[citation needed]

References

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  1. ^ "ရန်ကုန်တက္ကသိုလ် မဟာဌာနတွေ ပြန်ဖွဲ့နိုင်". BBC News.
  2. ^ "၂ဝ၁၉ ခုနှစ် အမျိုးသားစာပေဆု". lotaya.mpt.com.mm.
  3. ^ "၂၀၁၇ ခုနှစ်အတွက် အမျိုးသားစာပေဆု စိစစ်ရွေးချယ်နိုင်ရေး အပြီးသတ် အဖွဲ့ကြီးအစည်းအဝေး ကျင်းပ". sarpaybeikman-pol.gov.mm.
  4. ^ "ပြန်ကြားရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာနမှ မြန်မာဘာသာမှ အင်္ဂလိပ်ဘာသာပြန်ဆိုခြင်း စာတမ်းဖတ်ပွဲကျင်းပပြုလုပ်မည်". www.mdn.gov.mm.
  5. ^ "ဘိုးလှိုင်၏ အလံ ရှစ်ခု အလေးပြု". The Myanmar Times.
  6. ^ "၂၀၁၉ ခုနှစ်အတွက် အမျိုးသားစာပေတစ်သက်တာဆု၊ အမျိုးသားစာပေဆုများ ထုတ်ပြန်ကြေညာ". www.mdn.gov.mm.