Gerard 't Hooft
Gerardus 't Hooft, Gerard ' t Hooft ( born July 5, 1946 in Den Helder ) is a Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate.
Life
Gerard ' t Hooft comes from a family of scientists: his uncle was the physicist Nico van Kampen, his grandfather, the biologist Pieter Nicolaas van Kampen and his great-uncle, the physicist and Nobel Laureate Frits Zernike. He completed his school final examination in 1964 at Dalton Lyceum in The Hague. Until 1966 he studied physics and mathematics at the University of Utrecht, where he received his doctorate with a topic of theoretical physics in 1969. Interrupted by a two-year stay at CERN ( 1972-74 ) he remained until 1976 at the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Utrecht. After a brief stop at Harvard University and at Stanford University, he was Professor in 1977 in Utrecht. As a visiting professor he held in 1981 at Caltech, 1988 at Boston University and in 1989 at Duke University.
Since 1972 t Hooft is ' married Albertha Anje Schik, with whom he has two daughters.
Services
Gerard ' t Hooft made important contributions to renormalization of gauge theories, the confinement of quarks, the theory of anomalies in quantum field theory and the theory of instantons. A monopole solution in Yang-Mills theories is named after him and Alexander Polyakov. His most important achievement is the proof of the renormalizability of Yang-Mills theories with spontaneous symmetry breaking, which he rendered in 1971 together with his teacher Martinus Veltman. Together with other major developments in the early 1970s (eg asymptotic freedom ) led to making quantum field theories at that time again " respectable ". He developed a perturbative development of SU ( N) gauge theories (N → ∞ ), as a model for the study of qualitative properties of quantum chromodynamics, but also, for example, important for the AdS / CFT correspondence in string theory. Lately, he is mainly concerned with gravitational theory and developed together with the holographic principle Leonard Susskind.
Gerard ' t Hooft received the 1995 Spinoza Prize and the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics with Martinus Veltman together. Their crucial contributions to quantum field theory and especially the Renormierungsbeweis the theory of electroweak interactions In 1999 he received the High Energy and Particle Physics Prize of the EPS.
He is a member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences and Arts (since 1981), the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (since 1982), the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (since 1984 ) and the French Academy of Sciences ( since 1995).
The asteroid ( 9491 ) Thooft was named after him.
Publications (selection )
- With MJG Veltman: Regularization And Renormalization Of Gauge Fields. In: Nuclear Physics B. 44, No. 1, 1972 ( for this work Hooft received the Nobel Prize, online).
- A planar diagram theory for strong interactions. In: Nuclear Physics B. 72, No. 3, 1974, pp. 461-473 (online).
- Magnetic monopoles in unified gauge theories. In: Nuclear Physics B. 79, No. 2, 1974, pp. 276-284, doi: 10.1016/0550-3213 (74 ) 90486-6.
- In search for the ultimate building blocks. Cambridge University Press, 1997, ISBN 0-521-57883-3. ( popular science )
- Nobel Lecture: A confrontation with infinity. In: Reviews of Modern Physics. 72, No. 2, 2000, pp. 333-339, doi: 10.1103/RevModPhys.72.333 ( PDF document).
- Horizons. In: Erice Lecture Notes. 2003, ( gr-qc/0401027 ).
- As Eds.: 50 Years of Yang - Mills Theory. World Scientific, 2005, ISBN 981-238-934-2 (online).
- Planetenbiljart. Science Fiction s real natuurkunde (planetary billiards, science fiction and real science ). Bert Bakker, Amsterdam 2006, ISBN 90-351-3026- X.
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