Gerard 't Hooft: advisors and students

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Gerard 't Hooft

Dutch theoretical physicistborn 1946

Supervised 6 doctoral students at Utrecht University; Wikidata names Martinus J. G. Veltman as doctoral advisor and lists 10 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 8 other registers.

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Students6

cited by a thesis record
Nico Groenenboom “Quantum gravity on the event horizon”
2026 · Utrecht University · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
A.T. Franzen “The wave equation on black hole interiors”
2015 · Utrecht University · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
C.S.P. Wever “Soft and Coulomb resummation: squark and gluino production at the LHC”
2013 · Utrecht University · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
J.F. Koksma “Quantum Field Theory and Decoherence in the Early Universe”
2011 · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
M. van de Meent “Piecewise flat gravity in 3+1 dimensions”
2011 · Utrecht University · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
T.M. Janssen “The infrared sector of quantum fields on cosmological space-times”
2009 · Utrecht University · doctoral

Advisors on Wikidata1

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Martinus J. G. Veltman

Students on Wikidata10

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Robbert Dijkgraaf
born 1960
stated by Wikidata
Erik Verlinde
born 1962
stated by Wikidata
Herman Verlinde
born 1962
stated by Wikidata
Max Welling
born 1968
stated by Wikidata
Anne Theresia Franzen
born 1980
stated by Wikidata
Joost Johannes Zegwaard
stated by Wikidata
Maarten van de Meent
stated by Wikidata
Petrus Jacobus van Baal
stated by Wikidata
Ruud van Damme
stated by Wikidata
Sebastian De Haro

The line above and below4 steps

The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

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stated by WikidataMartinus J. G. Veltman
2 steps up
stated by WikidataLéon van Hove
3 steps up
stated by WikidataThéophile de Donder
4 steps up
stated by WikidataHenri Poincaré

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 63 people: 6 cited by thesis records, 57 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career4

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1997 to 2011
Leiden University
worked
undated
Utrecht University
studied
undated
Utrecht University
worked
undated
CERN
worked

Coauthors in OpenAlex218

People who share works with them in OpenAlex, the most shared first: indexed, and never counted with the lineage.

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Maurice H. P. M. van Putten
22 shared works
indexed by OpenAlex
Amir Levinson
22 shared works
indexed by OpenAlex
Lev Nikolaevich Lipatov
12 shared works
indexed by OpenAlex
Jürgen Fuchs
11 shared works
indexed by OpenAlex
Evgeniy A. Ivanov
11 shared works
indexed by OpenAlex
Alexander Gavrilik
11 shared works
indexed by OpenAlex
Massimo Bianchi
11 shared works
indexed by OpenAlex
David Fernáendez
11 shared works
indexed by OpenAlex
Aristophanes Dimakis
11 shared works
indexed by OpenAlex
Folkert Müller-Hoissen
11 shared works

OpenAlex lists 208 more people who share a work with them.

At a glance

known as: theoretical physicist, pedagogue, non-fiction writer, physicist, university teacher
fields: theoretical physics, physics
degrees: doctorate
awards: Nobel Prize in Physics, 1999, Lorentz Medal, 1986, Wolf Prize in Physics, 1981, Spinoza Prize, 1995, Franklin Medal, 1995, Lomonosov Gold Medal, 2010, Akademiepenning, 1999, Oskar Klein Medal, 1999, High Energy and Particle Physics Prize, 1999, Officer of the Legion of Honour, Commander of the Order of the Netherlands Lion, Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics, 1979, honorary doctor of the University of Science and Technology of China, 2004, Marcel Grossmann Award, 2021, honorary doctorate of the University of the Mediterranean - Aix Marseille II, 2000, Akademiehoogleraren Prize, 2003
member of: French Academy of Sciences, from 1995, National Academy of Sciences, from 1984, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, from 1982, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, from 1986, Russian Academy of Sciences, from 2019, Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten, from 1981, European Academy of Sciences, from 2004
Wikipedia: in 76 languages

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Elsewhere10

identity

stated by WikidataWikipediaGerard 't Hooft
stated by WikidataWikidataQ184592
stated by WikidataORCID0000-0002-5405-5504
stated by WikidataVIAF89135534
stated by WikidataGND133780333
stated by WikidataIdRef083568824
stated by WikidataISNI0000000121429592

papers

stated by WikidataDBLP59/7419
stated by WikidataScopus56008155800

lineage

stated by WikidataMathematics Genealogy Project23240

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Read on 31 October 2026. A citation names the day the record was read, not a version.

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@misc{academicancestry_Q184592,
  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{Gerard 't Hooft: advisors and students}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://academicancestry.org/person/Q184592},
  note = {read on 2026-10-31}
}

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