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Simon van der Meer Biography

Simon van der Meer

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, two of the most fundamental constituents of matter.

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Nevertheless, if I have at times been able to make original contributions in the accelerator field, I cannot help feeling that to a certain extent my slightly amateur approach in physics, combined with much practical experience, was an asset.

Feelings, Able, Fields, Experience, Help, Physics

My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family.

Mother, Teacher, Father, Family, Schoolteacher

After developing a primitive theory (1968) I therefore did not pursue this subject. However, the work was taken up by others and in 1974 the first experiments were done in the ISR.

1968, 1974, Done, Firsts, Taken, Theory

I visited the Gymnasium in The Hague and passed my final examination (in the sciences section) in 1943.

Finals, Examination, Gymnasiums, 1943, Section, Sciences

My interest in matters more directly concerned with the handling of particles was growing, in the meantime, stimulated by many contacts with people understanding accelerators.

Accelerators, Growing, Handling, Interest, People, Understanding

At this time, my work on the SPS power supplies had just come to an end; I joined a study group on the pp project and an experimental team studying cooling in a small ring (ICE).

Team, Hockey, Study Group, Supplies, Power, Come

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