Peter van Nieuwenhuizen is a Dutch theoretical physicist. He is a distinguished Professor at Stony Brook University in the United States. Widely known for his contributions to String theory, Supersymmetry, Supergravity and Field theory. Wikipedia
Born: 1938 (age 85 years), Utrecht, Netherlands
Notable students: Shoucheng Zhang and Fiorenzo Bastianelli
Awards: Dirac Medal of the ICTP (1993), Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics (2006), and Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (2019)