Gerard 't Hooft, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Gerard 't Hooft

Dutch theoretical physicist and Nobel Prize winner

Date of Birth: 05-Jul-1946

Place of Birth: Den Helder, North Holland, Netherlands

Profession: professor, physicist, pedagogue, university teacher, non-fiction writer, theoretical physicist

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Gerardus (Gerard) 't Hooft (Dutch: ['?e?r?rt ?t '?o?ft]; 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.
His contributions to physics include a proof that gauge theories are renormalizable, dimensional regularization and the holographic principle.