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Additional background material on the Nobel Prize in Physics 1999 12 October 1999 has awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly to Professor Gerardus ‘t Hooft, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands, and Professor Emeritus Martinus J. G. Veltman, University of Michigan, USA, resident in Bilthoven, the Netherlands. “for elucidating the quantum structure of…
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Credits and References for the 1999 Physics Nobel Poster
Editorial Board: Prof. Cecilia Jarlskog, Chair of the Nobel Committee for Physics, and M. Sc. Linda Jarlskog, Lund University, Prof. Anders Bárány, Secretary of the Nobel Committee for Physics, Science Editor Eva Krutmeijer and Dr. Solgerd Björn-Rasmussen, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Layout and illustrations: Typoform Printing: Tryckindustri 1999. Copyright © , Information Department,…
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‘t Hooft and Veltman did their Nobel Prize work around 1970. Not until results were presented from the particle accelerator LEP at CERN, the European Laboratory in Geneva, was the breadth of their contributions realised. From these results, among other things, the mass of the top quark could be predicted. This prediction was confirmed when…
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The electroweak interactions play an extremely important role in nature. There would be no atoms without electromagnetism and the sun would not shine without weak interactions! Electromagnetic interactions make the electrons keep to their orbits around the nucleus and weak interactions transform protons into neutrons and “bake” them into helium nuclei in the “oven” in…
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