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75
Citations
62571
World Ranking
3353
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1999 - Nobel Prize for elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions in physics
  • 1986 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1984 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1982 - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Gerard 't Hooft is affiliated with Utrecht University in the Netherlands and has a research portfolio primarily in Physics and Astronomy. Their work covers a broad range of 61 publications focused on several key subfields including Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics; Astronomy and Astrophysics; Nuclear and High Energy Physics; Statistical and Nonlinear Physics; as well as History and Philosophy of Science.

Their research topics span:

  • Quantum Mechanics and Applications
  • Black Holes and Theoretical Physics
  • Biofield Effects and Biophysics
  • Relativity and Gravitational Theory
  • Philosophy and History of Science
  • Cosmology and Gravitation Theories
  • Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories

A significant number of their papers have appeared in the venue arXiv (Cornell University), with 13 publications there. Other publication venues include Universe, Frontiers in Physics, Foundations of Physics, and the Journal of High Energy Physics.

Recent notable papers by Gerard 't Hooft include:

  • Higgs equation, 2025, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Deterministic Quantum Mechanics: The Mathematical Equations, 2020, Frontiers in Physics
  • Fast Vacuum Fluctuations and the Emergence of Quantum Mechanics, 2021, Foundations of Physics
  • Quantum Clones inside Black Holes, 2022, Universe
  • Quantum gravity on the black hole horizon, 2022, Journal of High Energy Physics

Collaborations have involved several frequent co-authors such as Nava Gaddam, Nico Groenenboom, William D. Phillips, Anton Zeilinger, and Roland E. Allen.

Gerard 't Hooft has been recognized with several awards including:

  • Nobel Prize in 1999 for elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions in physics
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1986
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 1984
  • Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1982

Best Publications

  • A planar diagram theory for strong interactions

    Gerardus 't Hooft

  • Regularization and Renormalization of Gauge Fields

    Gerard 't Hooft;M.J.G. Veltman

  • Magnetic monopoles in unified gauge theories

    Gerardus 't Hooft

  • Symmetry Breaking Through Bell-Jackiw Anomalies

    Gerard 't Hooft

  • Computation of the quantum effects due to a four-dimensional pseudoparticle

    Gerard 't Hooft

  • A two-dimensional model for mesons

    Gerardus 't Hooft

  • Dimensional reduction in quantum gravity

    G. 't Hooft

  • On the Phase Transition Towards Permanent Quark Confinement

    Gerard 't Hooft

  • On the Quantum Structure of a Black Hole

    Gerard 't Hooft

  • Topology of the gauge condition and new confinement phases in non-abelian gauge theories

    Gerard 't Hooft

  • Scalar One Loop Integrals

    Gerard 't Hooft;M.J.G. Veltman

  • Dimensional regularization and the renormalization group

    Gerardus 't Hooft

  • Three-dimensional Einstein gravity: Dynamics of flat space

    Stanley Deser;R. Jackiw;Gerard 't Hooft

  • A property of electric and magnetic flux in non-Abelian gauge theories

    Gerard 't Hooft

  • Naturalness, chiral symmetry, and spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking

    Gerard 't Hooft

  • Renormalizable Lagrangians for Massive Yang-Mills Fields

    Gerard 't Hooft

  • Renormalization of Massless Yang-Mills Fields

    Gerard 't Hooft

  • One loop divergencies in the theory of gravitation

    Gerard 't Hooft;M.J.G. Veltman

  • Graviton dominance in ultra-high-energy scattering

    Gerard 't Hooft

  • Recent Developments in Gauge Theories

    G. 't Hooft;C. Itzykson;A. Jaffe;H. Lehmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Carlo Rovelli
Carlo Rovelli Aix-Marseille University
Edward Witten
Edward Witten Institute for Advanced Study
Stanley Deser
Stanley Deser Brandeis University
Steven B. Giddings
Steven B. Giddings University of California, Santa Barbara
Steven Weinberg
Steven Weinberg The University of Texas at Austin
Leonard Susskind
Leonard Susskind Stanford University
Lee Smolin
Lee Smolin Perimeter Institute
Roger Penrose
Roger Penrose University of Oxford

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