"We understand many things about particles and their interactions, but this and other mysteries make it very clear that we are nowhere close to a full understanding."
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Martinus J. G. Veltman
Martinus Justinus Godefriedus "Tini" Veltman (born June 27, 1931 – January 4, 2021, in Waalwijk) was a Dutch theoretical physicist. He shared the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics with his former PhD student Gerardus 't Hooft for their work on particle theory.
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