Veltman, Martinus

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Name (Hebrew)
ולטמן, מרטינוס
Name (Latin)
Veltman, Martinus
Other forms of name
Veltman, M. J
Veltman, Martinus Justinus Godefriedus
Veltman, Tini
Veltman, M. J. G. (Martinus J. G.)
Veltman, M. (Martinus)
Veltman, Martinus J. G
Date of birth
1931-06-27
Date of death
2021-01-04
Field of activity
Physics
Occupation
Physicists
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 49313651
Wikidata: Q202149
Library of congress: n 94068242
TAU10: 000333192
Sources of Information
  • Diagrammar, 1973:t.p. (M. Veltman)
  • Diagrammatica, 1994:t.p. (Martinus Veltman, Univ. of Mich.)
  • Facts and mysteries in elementary particle physics, 2003:CIP t.p. (Martinus J.G. Veltman; Univ. of Mich., Ann Arbor)
  • Gauge theories, past and future, c1992:t.p. (in commemoration of the 60th birthday of M. Veltman)
  • Veltman, Martinus ; variants: Tini Veltman, M. J. Veltman ( (Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek, viewed April 1, 2021) )
  • Ne72-19(hdg.: Veltmann, M.; usage: M.J.G. Veltman)
  • Washington post WWW site, viewed Jan. 12, 2021(in obituary dated Jan. 8. 2021: Martinus Veltman; Martinus J.G. Veltman, a Dutch theoretical physicist who won the Nobel Prize for major contributions to the standard model of particle physics, died Jan. 4 at his home in the Netherlands. He was 89. His death, in Bilthoven, was confirmed on the Nobel Prize website. Martinus Justinus Godefriedus Veltman, known as "Tini," was born June 27, 1931, in Waalwijk, Netherlands. He taught for years in his native land and was also a professor emeritus at the University of Michigan. He began the study of mathematics and physics at Utrecht University in 1948 and, after receiving a master's degree and then fulfilling his military obligation, returned to Utrecht, where he received his PhD in 1963. He later became a member of the faculty. During a long American interlude, he served on the physics faculty at the University of Michigan from 1981 to 1997)