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Gerard 't Hooft

1946 - Today

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Gerardus "Gerard" 't Hooft (Dutch: [ˈɣeːrɑrt ət ˈɦoːft]; born July 5, 1946) is a Dutch theoretical physicist and professor 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". His work concentrates on gauge theory, black holes, quantum gravity and fundamental aspects of quantum mechanics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gerard 't Hooft has received more than 589,946 page views. His biography is available in 73 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 68 in 2019). Gerard 't Hooft is the 41st most popular physicist (up from 310th in 2019), the 20th most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 203rd in 2019) and the 4th most popular Dutch Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Gerard 't Hooft ranks 41 out of 851. Before him are Paul Dirac, Richard Feynman, Henry Cavendish, Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, Wolfgang Pauli, and Lise Meitner. After him are Max von Laue, Pieter Zeeman, J. J. Thomson, Philipp Lenard, William Gilbert, and Frédéric Joliot-Curie.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Gerard 't Hooft ranks 14. Before him are Sonia Gandhi, Bill Clinton, Alan Rickman, Demis Roussos, Ted Bundy, and Patti Smith. After him are Bon Scott, Jane Birkin, Mireille Mathieu, George Best, Charlotte Rampling, and Queen Anne-Marie of Greece.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Gerard 't Hooft ranks 20 out of 1,646. Before him are Mata Hari (1876), Hendrik Lorentz (1853), Beatrix of the Netherlands (1938), Daniel Bernoulli (1700), Pope Adrian VI (1459), and Wilhelmina of the Netherlands (1880). After him are Pieter Zeeman (1865), M. C. Escher (1898), Willem Barentsz (1550), Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff (1852), Johannes Diderik van der Waals (1837), and Juliana of the Netherlands (1909).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Netherlands

Among physicists born in Netherlands, Gerard 't Hooft ranks 4. Before him are Christiaan Huygens (1629), Hendrik Lorentz (1853), and Daniel Bernoulli (1700). After him are Pieter Zeeman (1865), Johannes Diderik van der Waals (1837), Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1853), Peter Debye (1884), Frits Zernike (1888), Simon van der Meer (1925), Nicolaas Bloembergen (1920), and Martinus J. G. Veltman (1931).

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