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Tu-Anh Pham
Tu-Anh Pham, 42, of Princeton, N.J., found success in the United States after fleeing Vietnam with her family during the fall of Saigon in 1975.
She had recently been promoted at Fred Alger Management, a mutual fund firm with offices on the 93rd floor of the World Trade Center, when a hijacked jetliner crashed into her building on the morning of Sept. 11.
The terrorist attack came only one day after Pham had returned from maternity leave, following the birth of her daughter and only child, Vivienne.
Strengthened by her tumultuous childhood, Pham exhibited a quiet determination in her professional life, rising to become a vice president and chief financial analyst at Fred Alger Management, where she worked for four years.
Pham led a nomadic childhood after her family became refugees because of the Vietnam War. They lived in relocation camps in Guam and California before settling in Tulsa, Okla., where Pham graduated from high school.
She attended the University of Oklahoma, earning a degree in chemistry and chemical engineering.
Pham went to work for Dow Chemical in Texas, where she met her husband, Thomas Knobel. The two eventually changed careers, with Pham earning a master's degree in business from the University of Pennsylvania, and Knobel becoming a novelist.
Pham began a variety of consulting jobs. At one point, she lived in England while Knobel lived in New Jersey. The couple moved to Princeton in 1994 to settle down and start a family.
In addition to her husband and daughter, Pham is survived by her mother, Kim-Anh Nguyen of Atlanta.
--Rob Fernas (Los Angeles Times)
My husband just sent me this, he worked with Tu-Ahn and Tom in the 1980s.
Tom told Dennis and me that he was going to marry Tu-Ahn at a party at Jasmine Hall in Lake Jackson Texas about twenty years ago. They had not told their parents yet. But that was yesterday, and it is gone......
Tu-Anh Pham, and her husband, Tom Knobel, were Dow co-workers in the 1980's in Freeport Hydrocarbons Research. Tu-Ahn died in the collapse of the WTC on the day after returning from maternity leave. I remember her as a friendly, professional co-worker and was deeply saddened to hear of her tragic death.