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Martinus J. G. Veltman
Martinus Justinus Godefriedus "Tini" Veltman was a Dutch theoretical physicist. He shared the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics with his former PhD student Gerardus 't Hooft for their work on particle theory.
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science · Dutch theoretical physicist (1931–2021) · theoretical physicist · physicist · university teacher · also Martinus J. G. Veltman, M.J.G. Veltman, Martin Veltman, Martinus Veltman, Veltman
Born 27 June 1931 · Died 4 January 2021 · Q202149
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2021· 1 entry
2016· 1 entry
Published “Cortical abnormalities in adults and adolescents with major depression based on brain scans from 20 cohorts worldwide in the ENIGMA Major Depressive Disorder Working Group” in Molecular Psychiatry — cited 1,182 times.
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2015· 1 entry
Published “Subcortical brain alterations in major depressive disorder: findings from the ENIGMA Major Depressive Disorder working group” in Molecular Psychiatry — cited 1,046 times.
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2012· 1 entry
Published “Diagnostic Exome Sequencing in Persons with Severe Intellectual Disability” in New England Journal of Medicine — cited 1,396 times.
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2003· 1 entry
Veltman published a book about particle physics for a broad audience, entitled Facts and Mysteries in Elementary Particle Physics
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2000· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate of the University of the Mediterranean - Aix Marseille II (2000).
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1999· 4 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions in physics.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1999).
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Awarded Akademiepenning (1999).
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With 't Hooft, "for elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions in physics"
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1996· 1 entry
Won ICTP Dirac Medal (1996).
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1993· 2 entries
Awarded High Energy and Particle Physics Prize (1993).
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Veltman was awarded the High Energy Particle Physics Prize of the European Physical Society "for the role of massive Yang-Mills theories for weak interactions"
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1981· 1 entry
Veltman left Utrecht University for the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, from where he retired in 1996
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1980· 1 entry
Veltman became member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
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1979· 2 entries
Published “Scalar one-loop integrals” in Nuclear Physics B — cited 1,170 times.
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Published “One-loop corrections for e+e− annihilation into μ+μ− in the Weinberg model” in Nuclear Physics B — cited 2,157 times.
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1972· 1 entry
Published “Regularization and renormalization of gauge fields” in Nuclear Physics B — cited 3,687 times.
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1971· 1 entry
Gerardus 't Hooft, who was completing his PhD under the supervision of Veltman, renormalized Yang–Mills theory
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1970· 1 entry
Published “Massive and mass-less Yang-Mills and gravitational fields” in Nuclear Physics B — cited 1,079 times.
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1963· 1 entry
And became professor at Utrecht University in 1966
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1960· 2 entries
Married his wife Anneke, who gave birth to their daughter Hélène in the Netherlands, before moving to Geneva to live with Martinus
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Van Hove became director of the theory division at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, the European High Energy laboratory
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1956· 1 entry
After which he was drafted into military service for two years, returning in February 1959
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1931· 1 entry
Born 1931-06-27.
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