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Gerardus "Gerard" 't Hooft is a Dutch theoretical physicist and professor emeritus at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He shared the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics with his thesis advisor Martinus J. G. Veltman "for elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions."
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Born 5 July 1946 · Q184592
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Speaking in his often-times plainspoken manner, he was quoted in Scientific American, "Quantum mechanics is the possibility that you can consider superpositions of states
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Awarded Marcel Grossmann Award (2021).
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New Scientist: Gerard 'T Hooft
Published a book-length exposition of his ideas which, according to 't Hooft, has encountered mixed reactions
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Published “The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship” in Scientific Data — cited 14,760 times.
Won Lomonosov Gold Medal (2010).
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't Hooft became the editor-in-chief of Foundations of Physics, where he sought to distance the journal from the controversy of ECE theory and held the position until 2016
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New Scientist: Gerard ‘t Hooft forecasts the future
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Science and Technology of China (2004).
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Awarded Akademiehoogleraren Prize (2003).
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Awarded honorary doctorate of the University of the Mediterranean - Aix Marseille II (2000).
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't Hooft received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement
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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions in physics.
Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1999).
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Won Oskar Klein Medal (1999).
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Awarded High Energy and Particle Physics Prize (1999).
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Awarded Akademiepenning (1999).
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't Hooft shared the Nobel prize in Physics with his thesis adviser Veltman for "elucidating the quantum structure of the electroweak interactions in physics"
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Was awarded the High Energy Particle Physics Prize by the European Physical Society
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Awarded Spinoza Prize (1995).
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Won Franklin Medal (1995).
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Was one of the first recipients of the Spinozapremie, the highest award available to scientists in the Netherlands
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Won Lorentz Medal (1986).
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Was finally able to show that instanton contributions solve the Adler–Bell–Jackiw anomaly, the topic of his master's thesis
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Describing the dynamics of flat space where the only local degrees of freedom were propagating point defects
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Awarded Wolf Prize in Physics (1981).
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Was awarded the Wolf Prize, possibly the most prestigious prize in physics after the Nobel prize
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Awarded Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics (1979).
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After he returned to Utrecht, where he was made full professor
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Was invited to take on a guest position at Stanford and a position at Harvard as Morris Loeb Lecturer
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't Hooft returned to Utrecht where he became an assistant professor
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't Hooft began his doctoral research under the guidance of Martinus Veltman
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't Hooft turned to Martinus Veltman, the newly appointed professor who specialized in Yang–Mills theory
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Enrolled in the physics program at Utrecht University
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Born 1946-07-05.
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