Gerard 't Hooft

Gerard 't Hooft
't Hooft in November 2008
Born (1946-07-05) July 5, 1946 (age 78)
Den Helder, Netherlands
NationalityDutch
Alma materUtrecht University
Known forQuantum 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
AwardsHeineman 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
FieldsTheoretical physics
InstitutionsUtrecht University
Doctoral advisorMartinus J. G. Veltman
Doctoral studentsRobbert Dijkgraaf
Herman Verlinde
Max Welling

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".

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.