Martinus veltman biography of george bush

His father was the head of the local primary school. Three of his father's siblings were primary school teachers.

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He was the fourth child in a family with six children. He started studying mathematics and physics at Utrecht University in As a youth he had a great interest in radio electronics, which was a difficult hobby to work on because the occupying German army had confiscated most of the available radio equipment. In , he became an assistant to Prof.

Michels of the Van Der Waals laboratory in Amsterdam. Michels was an experimental physicist, working in high pressure physics. His primary task was the upkeep of a large library collection and occasional lecture preparations for Michels. He received his MSc degree in , after which he was drafted into military service for two years, returning in February Van Hove then hired him as a doctoral researcher.

He obtained his PhD degree in theoretical physics in and became professor at Utrecht University in Veltman followed him there in Veltman was closely involved in the CERN neutrino experiment, analyzing images as they were generated by the detectors. When no spectacular events came out, enthusiasm waned, and after a while Veltman and Bernardini were the only ones analyzing the images.

As a result, Veltman became the spokesman for the group at the Brookhaven Conference in