Veltman, Martinus Justinus
Godefriedus,
1931–2021, Dutch physicist (Univ. of Utrecht, Ph.D., 1963). Veltman
was a professor at the Univ. of Utrecht from 1966 to 1981; prior to taking a
post there, he had worked at CERN and the Stanford Linear Accelerator
Center. He joined the faculty at the Univ. of Michigan in 1981 and was named
professor emeritus upon his retirement in 1996, but he subsequently lived in
the Netherlands. Veltman shared the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics with his
former graduate student Gerardus 't Hooft for work in the 1960s and
1970s that enabled physicists to predict mathematically the properties of
subatomic particles and of the forces that hold these particles
together.
See his Diagrammatica (1994), Reflections on the Higgs
System (1997), Facts and Mysteries in Elementary
Particle Physics (2003).
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