Gerard 't Hooft
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This is a Dutch name; the family name is ’t Hooft, not Hooft.
Gerardus (Gerard) ’t Hooft (Dutch: [ˈɣeːrɑrt ət ˈɦoːft]; born July 5, 1946) 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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Gerard ’t Hooft | |
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Born | (1946-07-05) July 5, 1946 (age 77) Den Helder, Netherlands |
Nationality | Dutch |
Alma mater | Utrecht University |
Known for | Quantum field theory Quantum gravity ’t Hooft condition ’t Hooft–Polyakov monopole ’t Hooft symbol ’t Hooft loop Feynman–’t Hooft gauge Black hole complementarity Minimal subtraction scheme Holographic principle Renormalization of Yang–Mills theory Dimensional regularization Renormalon 1/N expansion |
Awards | Heineman Prize (1979) Wolf Prize (1981) Lorentz Medal (1986) Spinoza Prize (1995) Franklin Medal (1995) Nobel Prize in Physics (1999) High Energy and Particle Physics Prize (1999) Lomonosov Gold Medal (2010) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Theoretical physics |
Institutions | Utrecht University |
Doctoral advisor | Martinus J. G. Veltman |
Doctoral students | Robbert Dijkgraaf Herman Verlinde Max Welling |
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His work concentrates on gauge theory, black holes, quantum gravity and fundamental aspects of quantum mechanics. His contributions to physics include a proof that gauge theories are renormalizable, dimensional regularization and the holographic principle.