Simon van der Meer - Nobel Prize in Physics — 1984
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Simon van der Meer

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics — 1984
for their decisive contributions to the large project, which led to the discovery of the field particles W and Z, communicators of weak interaction
Together with: Carlo Rubbia
Citizenship
Kingdom of the NetherlandsKingdom of the Netherlands
Languages
French, Dutch
date of birth
11/24/1925
place of birth
The Hague
date of death
3/4/2011
place of death
Geneva
Lived
85 years

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occupation
  • physicist
  • inventor
field of work
  • physics
educated at
  • Christelijk Gymnasium Sorghvliet
  • Delft University of Technology
employer
  • Koninklijke Philips NV
  • CERN
member of
  • Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Academia Europaea
    • start time: 1991
  • Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
    • start time: 9/28/1987
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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