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August 9
Weinberg’s article has become the most cited paper in particle physics, and the number of citations is apparently growing rapidly: on page 197 Close mentions “more than 7,100 citations,” but on page 297 it is “more than 8,000.” Compare the eventual impact Weinberg’s work had with the attention it received in the years 1967–1970, when its citation score was 0,0,0,1. Everything changed in 1971, the year Gerard ’t Hooft, then a doctoral student of Martinus Veltman, used mathematical techniques developed by Veltman to solve the Infinity Puzzle for EWT and prove the renormalizability of the Glashow-Salam-Weinberg SU(2)×U(1) model.
http://www.ams.org/notices/201208/rtx120801102p.pdf