Asteroids named after people called Martinus

(9492) Veltman

Martinus J. G. Veltman (b. 1931) is professor of physics at the Universities of Utrecht and Michigan. Together with his colleague G. 't Hooft he won the 1999 Nobel Prize in physics, awarded for placing particle physics theory on a firmer mathematical foundation and for elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions.Discovered 25 March 1971 by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T., Palomar