Hooft

British  

/ hoːft /

noun

1. Pieter Corneliszoon (ˈpiːtər kɔrˈnɛːlisoːn). 1581–1647, Dutch poet, historian, and writer: noted esp for his love poetry and his 27-volume History of the Netherlands (1626–47)

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Example Sentences

His quantum mechanics work was “useful after all,” he says, because he persuaded Nobel Prize–winning physicist Gerard ’t Hooft to sign, which generated headlines.

From Science Magazine • Jan. 18, 2023

Across the Atlantic, the same nutty idea had occurred to the Dutch physicist, Gerardus ’t Hooft, a Nobel laureate at Utrecht University in the Netherlands.

From New York Times • Oct. 10, 2022

Two physicists I admire, Sabine Hossenfelder and Gerard ’t Hooft, have promoted the theory.

From Scientific American • Sep. 27, 2021

Dr. Veltman shared the Nobel in physics with another Dutch theoretical physicist, Gerardus ’t Hooft, then at Utrecht University in the Netherlands.

From Washington Post • Jan. 8, 2021

But Vondel, even more than Hooft, developed the latent powers of the tongue, enlarged its resources, and fixed its form.

From Vondel's Lucifer by Vondel, Joost van den