Gerard 't Hooft

Gerard 't Hooft
November 2008
Born	(1946-07-05) 5 Julie 1946 Den Helder, Netherlands
Naitionality	Dutch
Alma mater	Utrecht Varsity
Kent for	Quantum Field Theory, Quantum Gravity
Awairds	Heineman Prize (1979) Wolf Prize (1981) Lorentz Medal (1986) Spinoza Prize (1995) Franklin Medal (1995) Nobel Prize in Pheesics (1999) Lomonosov Gowd Medal (2010)
Scientific career
Fields	Theoretical pheesics
Institutions	Utrecht Varsity
Doctoral advisor	Martinus J. G. Veltman
Doctoral students	Robbert Dijkgraaf Herman Verlinde

This is a Dutch name; the faimily name is 't Hooft, nae Hooft.

Gerardus (Gerard) 't Hooft (Dutch: [ˌɣeːrɑrt ət ˈɦoːft]; born Julie 5, 1946) is a Dutch theoretical pheesicist an professor at Utrecht Varsity, the Netherlands. He shared the 1999 Nobel Prize in Pheesics wi his thesis advisor Martinus J. G. Veltman "for elucidatin the quantum structur o electroweak interactions".