Jedno z 39 kolegiów Uniwersytetu w Oxfordzie, Linacre College, zmienia swoja nazwę na Thao College w zamian za £155 milionów darowizny od najbogatszej Wietnamki Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao, właścicielki linii lotniczych [ENG]

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2021 was awarded jointly to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian "for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch".