Martinus J.G. Veltman (Tini for short) (born June 27, 1931) is a 1999 Nobel prize laureate "for elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions in physics", work done at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. He is now retired. Asteroid 9492 Veltman is named in his honor. June 27 is the 178th day of the year (179th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 187 days remaining. ... 1931 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1999 is a common year starting on Friday of the Common Era, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Photographs of Nobel Prize Medals. ... In physics, the electroweak theory presents a unified description of two of the four fundamental forces of nature: electromagnetism and the weak nuclear force. ... Utrecht University (Universiteit Utrecht in Dutch) is a university in Utrecht, The Netherlands. ... The Netherlands (Dutch: Nederland) is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (Dutch: Koninkrijk der Nederlanden). ... Asteroid 9492 Veltman was named for 1999 Nobel physics laureate Martinus J.G. Veltman. ...

External link

• Nobel Archive 1999 (http://www.nobel.se/physics/laureates/1999/index.html)