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Simon Van Der Meer
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 13 years ago |
Date of birth | November 24,1925 |
Zodiac sign | Sagittarius |
Born | The Hague |
Netherlands | |
Date of died | March 4,2011 |
Died | Geneva |
Switzerland | |
Residence | Switzerland |
Known for | Stochastic cooling |
Current partner | Catharina M. Koopman |
Awards | Nobel Prize in Physics |
Education | Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) |
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ID | 806072 |
Simon Van Der Meer Life story
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.