Gerardus 't Hooft Ph.D.

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1999
Nobel Prize also awarded to Martinus J.G. Veltman

Theoretical Physicist - Particle Physics. For PH.D Thesis work in 1971, Nobel Prize awarded in 1999.

"A man who knows everything," my answer at age 8 yrs, regarding what I'd like to become when I grow up. I meant "scientist", someone who unravels the secrets of the fundamental Laws of Nature.

Images

With my parents in The Hague, I am holding my father's hand. Two sisters, Ita(L) and Agnes (baby), approx. 1950

The Institute for Theoretical Physics, Utrecht, at the Maliesingel 23. Two adjacent houses and one floor of a third house. Approx. 1964.

Receiving a 2nd prize at one of the first Mathematics Olympiads in the Netherlands. I am at the left, with glasses. 1963. The paper says: Mathematics clever clogs received prizes.

Coxswain in Student Rowing Association "Triton", 1965.

Defending my thesis, 1972. Sitting behind me as "paranymph", Bernard de Wit, fellow student, later colleague.

With my family in Morocco, a surprise vacation organised at the occasion of both their parents' 60th birthday, by my 2 daughters, 2006. From left to right: G.'tH, Roland van Deutekom with Ellen 't H., Chris Eisberg with Saskia 't Hooft, my wife Betteke 't Hooft-Schik.

Most recent family photo (we are 10 now) in Sicily, 2014. From left to right: Roland holding Damian Eisberg, Chris, holding granddaughter Charlotte Eisberg, G.'tH, Betteke holding Daniel v.Deutekom, Saskia(top) and Ellen holding Rowan v.Deutekom.

“One comes to be of just such stuff as that on which the mind is set” - Maithri Upanishath, VI.34:3

“…the peace that is found in libraries and laboratories…” - Louis Pasteur

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