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Simon Van Der Meer

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Gender Male
Death12 years ago
Date of birth November 24,1925
Zodiac sign Sagittarius
Born The Hague
Netherlands
Date of died March 4,2011
DiedGeneva
Switzerland
ResidenceSwitzerland
Known forStochastic cooling
Current partner Catharina M. Koopman
Awards Nobel Prize in Physics
Education Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)
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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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