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Veltman, Martinus.

The Dutch theoretical physicist Martinus J. Veltman worked on the programme of renormalizing the massive Yang-Mills gauge field theories in a period when the majority of his colleagues believed such theories to be non-renormalizable. Working in relative isolation, Veltman developed innovative theoretical techniques and pursued a project that was eventually completed by his PhD student G.

At the same time, the change of climate surrounding relativistic quantum field theory also resulted in the development of the theory of strong interactions called quantum chromodynamics. By , thanks to this development the Glashow-Weinberg-Salam electroweak theory plus quantum chromodynamics had been broadly accepted as the Standard Model of particle physics.

Martinus Veltman was born on June 27, , in Waalwijk - a small town of 20 inhabitants in the southern region of the Netherlands. In his youth, Veltman was very interested in electronics and had some experience as the local radio repairman.

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In order to make his university life economically affordable, he enrolled at the State University of Utrecht, which he could reach by train with a daily minute trip. After a period in which Veltman focused on experimental physics, he decided to switch to theoretical physics. An important change in his student life occurred in , when the Belgian theoretical physicist Leon van Hove joined the Utrecht University faculty.

In the late s, theoretical particle physics was still a relatively novel field, and European universities did not yet offer formal courses in this subject. In order to keep the students updated with the current advancements it was common to organise summer schools inviting researchers who were contributing to the theoretical understanding of particle behaviour.

Veltman attended a couple of summer schools dedicated to theoretical particle physics and met some of the protagonists who were building what was to become the Standard Model of particle physics in the next decades, including S. Glashow, N. Cabibbo, and B.