Simon van der Meer

Nov 24, 1925 - Mar 4, 2011

Simon van der Meer was a Dutch particle accelerator physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1984 with Carlo Rubbia for contributions to the CERN project which led to the discovery of the W and Z particles, the two fundamental communicators of the weak interaction.
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“My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family.”

Simon van der Meer
Nov 24, 1925 - Mar 4, 2011
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