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 Elementary Particle Theory. Thereafter my attention was focused on the development of gauge theories. I focused on field theoretic aspects of gauge theories and t…