Martinus JG Veltman
Martinus Justinus Godefriedus Veltman ( Tini Veltman for short ; born June 27, 1931 in Waalwijk ; † January 4, 2021 in Bilthoven ) was a Dutch physicist . He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1999.
Life
Martinus Veltman was born on June 27, 1931, the fourth of six children to a primary school principal in Waalwijk in the south of the Netherlands . After graduating from school in 1948, he began studying physics at the University of Utrecht and in 1953 passed the intermediate diploma with average success. After graduating in 1956, he did three years of military service until 1959 and then began his doctorate in theoretical physics with Léon Van Hove . He moved to Geneva in 1961 , as his doctoral supervisor became head of the theory department at CERN in 1960was appointed, and completed his PhD in 1963. After a few months, which he spent at CERN doing further calculations and observing the neutrino experiments, he went to the SLAC in Stanford , but returned to CERN after a few months. He returned to Utrecht in 1968 and took over the chair of his doctoral supervisor when he retired . During a sabbatical year at the University of Michigan , he decided to move to the USA and moved to Ann Arbor in the fall of 1981 . He retired in 1996 and has lived in Bilthoven in the Netherlands ever since .
He married Anneke in 1960 and has a daughter (Hélène, * 1961, also a physicist) and two sons (Hugo, * 1966; Martijn, 1971).
His PhD students include Gerardus' t Hooft , Peter van Nieuwenhuizen and Bernard de Wit .
Services
Veltman worked together with one of his students, Gerardus' t Hooft , on the mathematical formulation of nonabelian gauge theories ( Yang-Mills theory ) and their renormalization . In 1977 he succeeded in predicting the mass of the top quark , an important step towards its detection in 1995.
In 1963 he developed one of the first computer algebra systems ( Schoonschip ) at SLAC , which he used to calculate Feynman diagrams .
Together with Gerardus' t Hooft, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1999 "for their decisive contributions to the theory of electroweak interaction in physics" in relation to quantum structure .
Fonts (selection)
- Facts and Mysteries in Elementary Particle Physics. World Scientific 2003, ISBN 9812381481
- Diagrammatica. The path to Feynman rules , Cambridge University Press 1995
- with Gerardus t'Hooft Diagram , CERN Preprint 1973, Online
Awards and honors
- 1980 Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences
- High Energy and Particle Physics Prize of the EPS, 1993
- Dirac Medal (ICTP) , 1996
- Nobel Prize in Physics , 1999
- 2000 member of the National Academy of Sciences
- Foreign member of the Polish Academy of Learning (PAU) in Cracow
The asteroid (9492) was named Veltman after Veltman .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nobelprijswinnaar Martinus Veltman (89) overleden. In: telegraaf.nl. January 6, 2021, accessed January 6, 2021 .
- ^ Members of the KNAW: Martinus Veltman. Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences, accessed June 11, 2017 .
- ^ Member Directory: Martinus Veltman. National Academy of Sciences, accessed June 11, 2017 .
Web links
- Information from the Nobel Foundation on the 1999 award ceremony for Martinus JG Veltman (English)
- Literature by and about Martinus JG Veltman in the catalog of the German National Library
- Martinus Veltman at the University of Michigan
- Veltman, Martinus JG - Inspire Author profile
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Veltman, Martinus JG |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Veltman, Martinus Justinus Godefriedus (full name); Veltman, Tini |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Dutch physicist and winner of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 27, 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Waalwijk |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 4, 2021 |
| Place of death | Bilthoven |