Gerard 't Hooft
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| Gender | Male |
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| Age | 77 |
| Date of birth | July 5,1946 |
| Zodiac sign | Cancer |
| Born | Den Helder |
| Netherlands | |
| Known for | Quantum field theory |
| Quantum gravity | |
| Notable students | Robbert Dijkgraaf |
| Herman Verlinde | |
| Max Welling | |
| Job | Professor |
| Physicist | |
| Books | DETERMINISM AND FREE WILL: New Insights from Physics, Philosophy, and |
| The Cellular Automaton Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics | |
| Time in Powers of Ten: Natural Phenomena and Their Timescales | |
| The Conceptual Basis of Quantum Field Theory | |
| Playing with planets | |
| Introduction to General Relativity | |
| Under the Spell of the Gauge Principle | |
| In Search of the Ultimate Building Blocks | |
| Awards | Wolf Prize in Physics |
| Franklin Medal | |
| Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics | |
| Lorentz Medal | |
| Lomonosov Gold Medal | |
| Nobel Prize in Physics | |
| Field | Theoretical physics |
| Doctor student | Robbert Dijkgraaf |
| Education | Utrecht University |
| Academic advisor | Martinus J. G. Veltman |
| Children | Saskia Eisberg-’t Hooft |
| Ellen 't Hooft | |
| Notable student | Robbert Dijkgraaf |
| Max Welling | |
| Erik Verlinde | |
| Date of Reg. | |
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| ID | 541304 |
Gerard 't Hooft Life story
Gerardus 't Hooft is a Dutch theoretical physicist and professor 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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