Martinus J. G. Veltman
Martinus J. G. Veltman | |
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Veltman in 2005 | |
| Born | Martinus Justinus Godefriedus Veltman 27 June 1931 Waalwijk, Netherlands |
| Died | 4 January 2021 (aged 89) Bilthoven, Netherlands |
| 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 |
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Martinus Justinus Godefriedus "Tini" Veltman (Dutch pronunciation: [mɑrˈtinʏ ɕʏsˈtinʏs xoːdəˈfridʏs ˈtini ˈvɛltmɑn]; 27 June 1931 – 4 January 2021) 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.