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Martinus Veltman

Theoretical physicist; Nobel laureate in physics for the quantum structure of electroweak interactions

Netherlands · 1931–2021

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Theoretical physicist at Utrecht who, with his student Gerard 't Hooft, showed that gauge theories of the weak interaction could be renormalised. Shared the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics.

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Question What are you most proud of? Identity & self read 104 other answers →

It will continue and it is due to something which I am very proud to say I invented. ... In 1975 I was asked to become a member of CERN’s scientific policy committee, that committee advises the council of CERN as to what they should do in the future concerning physics. ... we cannot go all the times through the traumatising experience of fighting for a new accelerator, making it and then fall back and so on, so I came to the concept of a constant budget.

Recorded Per Carlson and Jasmina Cirgic, Nobelprize.org interview, The Nobel Prize, December 1999 source ↗

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