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Simon van der Meer
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Simon van der Meer

Inventor · born November 24, 1925 · died 2011

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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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  1. ~59Received the Nobel Prize in Physics1984

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