Nobel prize awarded to Gerardus 't Hooft and Martinus Veltman

The LEP established the Standard Model of particle physics with unprecedented precision, including all its radiative corrections. These led to predictions for the masses of the top quark and Higgs boson, which were confirmed later on. After these precision measurements, the Nobel Prize in Physics 1999 was  awarded to Gerardus 't Hooft and Martinus Veltman "for elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions in physics".