ANN ARBOR— The general public and University of
Michigan faculty, students and staff are invited to attend
a lecture by Martinus J.G. Veltman, recipient of the 1999
Nobel Prize in physics, beginning at 3 p.m. on Friday (Oct.
22) in Room 1800, Chemistry Building, 930 N. University, on
the U-M’s Central Campus. “Understanding Particles” is the
title of his talk. A reception will follow immediately
afterwards in the atrium of the Chemistry Building.

From 1981 until his retirement in 1997, Veltman was
the John D. MacArthur Professor of Physics at the U-M.
Before joining the U-M faculty, he was a professor of
physics at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands
where he completed the pioneering mathematical work cited
by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in their Oct. 12
Nobel Prize announcement.

Veltman was awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in physics
for work done in the 1960s and 1970s which made it possible
for physicists to mathematically predict properties of the
sub-atomic particles that make up all matter in the
universe and the forces holding these particles together.

Prof. Veltman’s lecture and reception are free and
open to the general public.