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Simon van der Meer
1925-2011
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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