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Martinus J.G. Veltman
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Born June 27, 1931 • Netherlands
Died January 4, 2021 (aged 89) • Netherlands
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1999)
Subjects Of Study fundamental interaction • subatomic particle
Hooft, Gerardus 't
Gerardus ’t Hooft
Dutch physicist
Yukawa Hideki at Columbia University, 1949.
Yukawa Hideki
Japanese physicist
Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi
Italian-American physicist
J.J. Thomson
J.J. Thomson
British physicist
Wolfgang Pauli, 1945.
Wolfgang Pauli
American physicist
Chen Ning Yang
Chen Ning Yang
American physicist
James Chadwick
James Chadwick
British physicist
Murray Gell-Mann
Murray Gell-Mann
American physicist
Emilio Segrè
Emilio Segrè
Italian-American physicist
Carlo Rubbia
Italian physicist
Adam Riess
Adam Riess
American astronomer
Richter, Burton; Perl, Martin Lewis; Goldhaber, Gerson
Martin Lewis Perl
American physicist
Brian P. Schmidt.
Brian P. Schmidt
American-born Australian astronomer
Donald A. Glaser
American physicist
Tsung-Dao Lee
Tsung-Dao Lee
Chinese-American physicist
Saul Perlmutter
Saul Perlmutter
American physicist
Walther Bothe
German physicist
Grünberg, Peter
Peter Grünberg
German scientist
Albert Fert
French scientist
Owen Chamberlain
Owen Chamberlain
American physicist

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