Two Dutch physicists share the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics for their 1971 invention of a mathematical method that played a key role in the development of modern particle physics.

The official announcement of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics can found at http://www.nobel.se/announcement-99/physics99.html.

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Sheldon L. Glashow
Harvard University
Department of Physics
Lyman 331B
Cambridge, MA 02138

Helen R. Quinn
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Mailstop Code 81
P.O. Box 4349
Stanford, CA 94309

Gerard ‘t Hooft
University of Utrecht
Spinoza Instituut
Leuvenlaan 4
Postbus 80.195
3508 TD Utrecht
Netherlands

Martinus Veltman
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Physics Department
2477 Randall Laboratory
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1120

Steven Weinberg
University of Texas, Austin
Theory Group
Campus Mail Code C1608
Austin, TX 78712

From Science News, Vol. 156, No. 16, October 16, 1999, p. 247. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.