Hooft or 't Hooft is a
Dutch surname
Dutch or Nederlands commonly refers to:
* Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands
** Dutch people as an ethnic group ()
** Dutch nationality law, history and regulations of Dutch citizenship ()
** Dutch language ()
* In specific terms, i ...
meaning "(the) head" (''hoofd'' in modern Dutch).
Hooft
at the Database of Surnames in The Netherlands. Notable people with the surname include:
;Hooft
*Cornelis Hooft
Cornelis Pietersz. Hooft (1547 – 1627 in Amsterdam) was a Dutch statesman and Amsterdam regent during the Golden Age.
Life and work
Hooft Was a member of the patrician Hooft family, the son of the merchant Pieter Willemsz Hooft, and grandson ...
(1547–1627), Dutch statesman, father of P.C. Hooft
*Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft
Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft (; 16 March 158121 May 1647) - Knight in the Order of Saint Michael - was a Dutch historian, poet and playwright who lived during the Dutch Golden Age in literature.
Life
Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, often abbreviated ...
(1581–1647), Dutch historian, poet and playwright
* (1617–1678), Dutch mayor of Amsterdam,
*Catharina Hooft
Catharina Pietersdr Hooft (28 December 1618 – 30 September 1691) was a woman of the Dutch Golden Age. She became famous at a very early age, when she was painted by Frans Hals.
At the age of sixteen she married Cornelis de Graeff, ninetee ...
(1618–1691), woman of the Dutch Golden Age
*Hendrik Daniëlsz Hooft
Hendrik Daniëlszoon Hooft, Heerlijkheid, ''Ambachtsheer'' of Urk and Emmeloord (23 June 1716 in Amsterdam – 31 August 1794 in Loenersloot) was a Dutch people, Dutch politician during the Patriottentijd.
Personal life
Hooft was the son of Danià ...
(1716–1794), Dutch politician during the Patriottentijd
* Jeannette Hooft (1888–1939), Dutch traveler, mountaineer, and writer
*Henri Hooft
Henri Hooft, also known as Harry Hooft (born May 21, 1969), is a Dutch former kickboxer and trainer. He is the head trainer at Kill Cliff FC and formerly the Blackzilians.
Career
Hooft was born and raised in The Hague, Netherlands. At the age ...
(born 1969), Dutch kickboxer and trainer
;'t Hooft / Visser 't Hooft / Van 't Hooft
*Willem Visser 't Hooft
Willem Adolph Visser 't Hooft (20 September 1900 – 4 July 1985) was a Dutch theologian who became the first secretary general of the World Council of Churches in 1948 and held this position until his retirement in 1966.
Biography
Visser 't H ...
(1900–1985), Dutch theologian and the first secretary general of the World Council of Churches
*Haas Visser 't Hooft
Hendrik Philip "Haas" Visser 't Hooft (20 September 1905 in Haarlem – 28 July 1977 in Velp) was a Dutch field hockey player who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics
The 1928 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the IX Olympiad ( ...
(1905–1977), Dutch field hockey player
* Francis van 't Hooft (born 1940), Dutch field hockey player
*Gerard 't Hooft
Gerardus "Gerard" 't Hooft (; born July 5, 1946) is a Dutch theoretical physicist and professor at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He shared the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics with his thesis advisor Martinus J. G. Veltman "for elucidating t ...
(born 1946), Dutch theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate
* Jotie T'Hooft (1956–1977), Flemish Belgian neo-romantic poet
;Van Hooft / Van der Hooft
* (born 1941), Dutch Socialist Party politician
* Anna Van Hooft (born 1980s), Canadian actress
*Elroy van der Hooft
Elroy may refer to:
Places in the United States
* Elroy, North Carolina, a census-designated place
* Elroy, a village in Franconia Township, Pennsylvania
* Elroy, Texas, an unincorporated community
* Elroy, Wisconsin, a city
People and fictional ...
(born 1990), Dutch football forward
See also
;Named after Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft
*, artificial islet in the IJmeer
The IJmeer is a ' bordering lake' (''Randmeer'') in the Netherlands straddling the provinces of North Holland and Flevoland. Namely, it is the southeastern section of the Markermeer. It is an important habitat for birds such as the tufted duck an ...
*P. C. Hooft Award
The P.C. Hooft Award (in Dutch: P.C. Hooft-prijs), inaugurated in 1948, is a Dutch-language literary lifetime-achievement award named after 17th-century Dutch poet and playwright Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft. The award is made annually.
Background
...
, Dutch language literary lifetime achievement award
*MV Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft
''Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft'' was a Dutch ocean liner built in 1925. An onboard fire destroyed her passenger accommodation before she was completed. In 1932, another fire damaged her so severely that she was sold for scrapping, only to catch fire ...
, Dutch ocean liner built in 1925
;Named after Gerard 't Hooft
* 9491 Thooft (without an apostrophe), a main-belt asteroid
*Quantum field theory
In theoretical physics, quantum field theory (QFT) is a theoretical framework that combines Field theory (physics), field theory and the principle of relativity with ideas behind quantum mechanics. QFT is used in particle physics to construct phy ...
terminology:
** 't Hooft matching condition
**'t Hooft loop
In quantum field theory, the 't Hooft loop is a magnetic analogue of the Wilson loop whose spatial loop operator give rise to thin loops of magnetic flux associated with magnetic vortices. They play the role of a disorder parameter for the Hig ...
**'t Hooft symbol
The t Hooft symbol is a collection of numbers which allows one to express the generators of the SU(2) Lie algebra in terms of the generators of Lorentz algebra. The symbol is a blend between the Kronecker delta and the Levi-Civita symbol. It was ...
**'t Hooft–Polyakov monopole __NOTOC__
In theoretical physics, the t Hooft–Polyakov monopole is a topological soliton similar to the Dirac monopole but without the Dirac string. It arises in the case of a Yang–Mills theory with a gauge group G, coupled to a Higgs field ...
References
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Dutch-language surnames