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Gerardus 't Hooft Biography and Timeline

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Gerardus 't Hooft, historical timeline

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1971

Higgs Boson

Theoretical Physicist · Utrecht · Science / Physics

Demonstrates the renormalizability of spontaneously broken gauge theories, helping establish the mathematical consistency needed for the electroweak Higgs mechanism.

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