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Gerard 't Hooft

Born on July 5, 1946

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Gerardus "Gerard" 't Hooft (Dutch:; born 5 July 1946) is a Dutch theoretical physicist and professor emeritus at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He shared the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics with his thesis advisor Martinus J. G.

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