Martinus J. G. Veltman | |
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Born | Martinus Justinus Godefriedus Veltman 27 June 1931 Waalwijk, Netherlands |
Died | 4 January 2021 Bilthoven, Netherlands | (aged 89)
Nationality | Dutch |
Alma mater | Utrecht University |
Known for | Renormalization of Yang–Mills theory Dimensional regularization Schoonschip vDVZ discontinuity Passarino–Veltman reduction |
Awards | Nobel Prize in Physics (1999) Dirac Medal (1996) High Energy and Particle Physics Prize (1993) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics |
Institutions | |
Thesis | Intermediate particles in S-matrix theory and calculation of higher order effects in the production of intermediate vector bosons (1963) |
Doctoral advisor | Léon C. P. van Hove |
Doctoral students |
Martinus Justinus Godefriedus "Tini" Veltman (Dutch pronunciation: [mɑrˈtinʏʃʏsˈtinʏs xoːdəˈfridʏs ˈtini ˈvɛltmɑn];[1] 27 June 1931 – 4 January 2021)[2][3][4][5] 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.[6]