Hooft

British  

/ hoːft /

noun

1. Pieter Corneliszoon (ˈpiːtər kɔrˈnɛːlisoːn). 1581–1647, Dutch poet, historian, and writer: noted esp for his love poetry and his 27-volume History of the Netherlands (1626–47)

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Example Sentences

His quantum mechanics work was “useful after all,” he says, because he persuaded Nobel Prize–winning physicist Gerard ’t Hooft to sign, which generated headlines.

From Science Magazine • Jan. 18, 2023

“The odds of a supereruption happening are infinitesimally small,” said Emilie Hooft, a geophysicist at the University of Oregon.

From New York Times • Nov. 9, 2021

Glashow points out that ‘t Hooft “is not the first to question the reality of real numbers.”

From Scientific American • Mar. 19, 2021

He later became a member of the faculty, where he supervised the work of ’t Hooft.

From Washington Post • Jan. 8, 2021

P. 27 × 23.Portrait of a Man, said to be Peter Cornelius van Hooft, the poet.

From Great Masters in Painting: Rembrandt van Rijn by Bell, Malcolm