Simon van der Meer
Dutch Nobel-winning particle physicist
Died when: 85 years 100 days (1023 months)Star Sign: Sagittarius
Simon van der Meer (24 November 1925 – 4 March 2011) 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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