Short biography of Martinus J. G. Veltman, written in first person, about the Nobel prize winner for chemistry

My name is Martinus J. G. Veltman. I was born in 1831 and raised in the Dutch Netherlands. I graduated from the University of Utrecht in 1963, after receiving my Ph.D. in Physics. From 1966 to 1981, I was a professor of physics at that university. I later then joined the faculty of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The path to co-receiving the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics began with my research in the field of …

…particle which makes up protons and neutrons. Our prediction regarded the mass of the sixth "top" quark. When the top quark was discovered at Fermilab's Tevatron protonantiproton collider in 1995, its mass was exactly where our calculations said it would be. The Nobel Prize was awarded to Hooft and I for our mathematical accomplishments in quantum physics. I am Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan, and I still live in the Netherlands to this day.