Professor Martinus Veltman
Professor Emeritus
John D. MacArthur Professor of Physics
(University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
Martinus Veltman, born in 1931 in Waalwijk, the Netherlands, studied at
the University of Utrecht. He started as a fellow at CERN, Geneva,
Switzerland, and later became Professor of Theoretical Physics in
Utrecht. Together with his then student ’t Hooft he developed the
mathematical implementation of gauge theories. In 1977 he deduced an
equation that allowed a prediction of the mass of the top quark. In 1981
he accepted a position at the University of Michigan. After retirement
he moved back to the Netherlands. The top quark with a mass as predicted
was found at Fermilab in 1995, and in 1999 't Hooft and Veltman were
awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, “for elucidating the quantum
structure of electroweak interactions in physics”.
Professor Veltman's publications with World Scientific include:
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