Nobel Prize in Physics 1999
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Gerardus 't Hooft
Prize share: 1/2
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Martinus J.G. Veltman
Prize share: 1/2
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1999 was awarded jointly to Gerardus 't Hooft and Martinus J.G. Veltman "for elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions in physics"
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