Binh Dinh (VNA) - ProfessorGerard’t Hooft, Dutch Nobel Laureate in Physics and his wife have arrived in thesouth central province of Binh Dinh.
Accepting an invitation from Prof. TranThanh Van, president of Rencontres du Vietnam, Prof. Hooft will attend Vietnam’sscientific event on cosmography in the coastal city of Quy Nhon.
He is scheduled to conduct a talk on thebasic laws of nature in front of a scientific audience in Binh Dinh and allover Vietnam on July 25.
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Prof. Geradus’t Hoot, born in 1946 in Den Helder (the Netherlands), is atheoretical physicist working at Utrecht University.
In 1999, he and his teacher, Prof. MartinusJ. G. Veltman, won the Nobel Prize in Physics for their research on "Quantum structure of electroweak interactions." This is asignificant scientific work on building a strong mathematical foundation forphysics theories of particles.-VNA