Gerardus t Hooft

Category
SCIENCES

Language
DUTCH

Gerard 't Hooft was born in Den Helder on July 5, 1946,[1] but grew up in The Hague. He was the middle child of a family of three. He comes from a family of scholars. His great uncle was Nobel prize laureate Frits Zernike, and his grandmother was married to Pieter Nicolaas van Kampen, a professor of zoology at Leiden University. His uncle Nico van Kampen was an professor of theoretical physics at Utrecht University, and his mother married a maritime engineer.[2] Following his family's footsteps, he showed interest in science at an early age. When his primary school teacher asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up, he replied, "a man who knows everything."[2]

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