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Nieuwenhuizen</div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday">1938-10-26</span>) </span>October 26, 1938<span class="noprint ForceAgeToShow"> (age 86)</span><br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Utrecht_(city)" class="mw-redirect" title="Utrecht (city)">Utrecht</a>, Netherlands</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Nationality</th><td class="infobox-data category">Dutch</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Alma mater</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/University_of_Utrecht" class="mw-redirect" title="University of Utrecht">University of Utrecht</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Known for</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Pure_4D_N_%3D_1_supergravity" title="Pure 4D N = 1 supergravity">Pure 4D N = 1 supergravity</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Awards</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Dirac_Medal_(ICTP)" title="Dirac Medal (ICTP)">Dirac Prize</a> (1993)<br /><a href="/wiki/Dannie_Heineman_Prize_for_Mathematical_Physics" title="Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics">Dannie Heineman Prize</a> (2006)<br /><a href="/wiki/Breakthrough_Prize_in_Fundamental_Physics" title="Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics">Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics</a> (2019)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><b>Scientific career</b></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Fields</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Physics" title="Physics">Physics</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Institutions</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Stony_Brook_University" title="Stony Brook University">Stony Brook University</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Doctoral_advisor" title="Doctoral advisor">Doctoral advisor</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Martinus_Veltman" class="mw-redirect" title="Martinus Veltman">Martinus Veltman</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Doctoral students</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Hora%C8%9Biu_N%C4%83stase" title="Horațiu Năstase">Horațiu Năstase</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Shoucheng_Zhang" title="Shoucheng Zhang">Shoucheng Zhang</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Peter van Nieuwenhuizen</b> (<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1177148991">.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}</style><span class="IPA-label IPA-label-small">Dutch:</span> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="nl-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Dutch" title="Help:IPA/Dutch">[ˈpeːtər<span class="wrap"> </span>vɑ<span class="wrap"> </span>ˈniu.ə(n)ˌɦœyzə(n)]</a></span>; born October 26, 1938) is a <a href="/wiki/Dutch_people" title="Dutch people">Dutch</a> <a href="/wiki/Physicist" title="Physicist">theoretical physicist</a>. He is a distinguished Professor at <a href="/wiki/Stony_Brook_University" title="Stony Brook University">Stony Brook University</a> in the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Widely known for his contributions to <a href="/wiki/String_theory" title="String theory">String theory</a>, <a href="/wiki/Supersymmetry" title="Supersymmetry">Supersymmetry</a>, <a href="/wiki/Supergravity" title="Supergravity">Supergravity</a> and <a href="/wiki/Quantum_field_theory" title="Quantum field theory">Field theory</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He is best known for his discovery of <a href="/wiki/Supergravity" title="Supergravity">supergravity</a> with <a href="/wiki/Sergio_Ferrara" title="Sergio Ferrara">Sergio Ferrara</a> and <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Z._Freedman" title="Daniel Z. Freedman">Daniel Z. Freedman</a> for which he along with his collaborators won the <a href="/wiki/Breakthrough_Prize_in_Fundamental_Physics" title="Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics">Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics</a> in 2019.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Life_and_career">Life and career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Peter_van_Nieuwenhuizen&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Life and career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Peter van Nieuwenhuizen studied physics and mathematics at the University of Utrecht, where he obtained in 1971 his Ph.D. under the supervision of later Nobel laureate <a href="/wiki/Martinus_Veltman" class="mw-redirect" title="Martinus Veltman">Martinus Veltman</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Niels_Bohr_Library_&_Archives_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Niels_Bohr_Library_&_Archives-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After his studies in Utrecht he went to <a href="/wiki/CERN" title="CERN">CERN</a> (Geneva), the University of Paris in Orsay, and <a href="/wiki/Brandeis_University" title="Brandeis University">Brandeis University</a> (Waltham). In 1975 he joined the Institute for Theoretical Physics, now named <a href="/wiki/C._N._Yang_Institute_for_Theoretical_Physics" title="C. N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics">C. N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics</a>, of the <a href="/wiki/Stony_Brook_University" title="Stony Brook University">Stony Brook University</a>, where he succeeded Nobel laureate <a href="/wiki/C._N._Yang" class="mw-redirect" title="C. N. Yang">C. N. Yang</a> as its director from 1999 till 2002. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards_and_honors">Awards and honors</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Peter_van_Nieuwenhuizen&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Awards and honors"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>For constructing <a href="/wiki/Supergravity" title="Supergravity">supergravity</a>, the first <a href="/wiki/Supersymmetric" class="mw-redirect" title="Supersymmetric">supersymmetric</a> extension of Einstein's theory of <a href="/wiki/General_relativity" title="General relativity">general relativity</a>, and for their central role in its subsequent development Peter van Nieuwenhuizen, <a href="/wiki/Sergio_Ferrara" title="Sergio Ferrara">Sergio Ferrara</a> and <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Z._Freedman" title="Daniel Z. Freedman">Daniel Z. Freedman</a> received in 1993 the <a href="/wiki/Dirac_Medal_(ICTP)" title="Dirac Medal (ICTP)">Dirac medal</a> from the <a href="/wiki/International_Centre_for_Theoretical_Physics" title="International Centre for Theoretical Physics">International Centre for Theoretical Physics</a> in Trieste (Italy), in 2006 the <a href="/wiki/Dannie_Heineman_Prize_for_Mathematical_Physics" title="Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics">Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics</a> of the <a href="/wiki/American_Physical_Society" title="American Physical Society">American Physical Society</a> and in 2016 the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Ettore_Majorana_Medal&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ettore Majorana Medal (page does not exist)">Ettore Majorana Medal</a> from EMFCSC, Erice. In 2019 the three were awarded a special <a href="/wiki/Breakthrough_Prize_in_Fundamental_Physics" title="Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics">Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics</a> of $3 million<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> for the discovery.<sup id="cite_ref-Ball_2019_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ball_2019-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He is a fellow of the American Physical Society, and a corresponding member of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Netherlands_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences" title="Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences">Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences</a> since 1994,<sup id="cite_ref-KNAW_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-KNAW-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. 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Freedman</a>, <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Peter van Nieuwenhuizen</a> (2019)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Event_Horizon_Telescope_Collaboration" class="mw-redirect" title="The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration">The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration</a> (2020)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eric_Adelberger" class="mw-redirect" title="Eric Adelberger">Eric Adelberger</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jens_H._Gundlach" title="Jens H. Gundlach">Jens H. Gundlach</a> and <a href="/wiki/Blayne_Heckel" title="Blayne Heckel">Blayne Heckel</a> (2021)</li> <li><i>Special</i>: <a href="/wiki/Steven_Weinberg" title="Steven Weinberg">Steven Weinberg</a> (2021)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hidetoshi_Katori" title="Hidetoshi Katori">Hidetoshi Katori</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jun_Ye" title="Jun Ye">Jun Ye</a> (2022)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_H._Bennett_(physicist)" title="Charles H. Bennett (physicist)">Charles H. 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