Simon van der Meer
Simon van der Meer
Simon van der Meerwas 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...
NationalityDutch
ProfessionPhysicist
Date of Birth24 November 1925
Simon van der Meer quotes about
finals examination gymnasiums
I visited the Gymnasium in The Hague and passed my final examination (in the sciences section) in 1943.