About Gerard 't Hooft
Gerardus "Gerard" 't Hooft is a Dutch theoretical physicist and professor emeritus 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." At the age of sixteen, he won a silver medal in the second Dutch Math Olympiad. This paper earned them worldwide recognition and ultimately won them the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics. However, 't Hooft did not, and the findings were later rediscovered and published by Hugh David Politzer, David Gross, and Frank Wilczek in 1973.
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