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Physics (209) |
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1984 (9) |
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1925 (10) |
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American Academy of Arts and Sciences (531) |
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Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (64) |
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complete name: |
Simon van der Meer |
nobel prize: |
physics |
award year: |
1984 |
together with: |
Carlo Rubbia |
prize share: |
Prize share: 1/2 |
rational: |
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1984 was awarded jointly to Carlo Rubbia and Simon van der Meer "for their decisive contributions to the large project, which led to the discovery of the field particles W and Z, communicators of weak interaction." |
biography: |
Biography |
laureate facts: |
Facts |
laureate lecture: |
Lecture |
given name: |
Simon |
family name: |
Meer |
occupation: |
physicist |
occupation: |
inventor |
field of work: |
physics |
work location: |
CERN, Geneva, Meyrin, Switzerland |
description: |
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, two of the most fundamental constituents of matter. (This is a Dutch name; the family name is van der Meer, not Meer.) |
image copyright: |
Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. |
image citation: |
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1984. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1984/summary/> |
date birth: |
1925 |
date death: |
2011 |
usual name: |
Simon van der Meer |