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Simon van der Meer
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Simon van der Meer was a scientist born on November 24, 1925, and died on March 4, 2011. He held an Erdős number of 6.
Van der Meer was recognized in the Nobel Laureates collection, the Nobel Physics collection, and the American Academy Arts Sciences collection. He received one Nobel Prize.
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Physics1984
“for their decisive contributions to the large project, which led to the discovery of the field particles W and Z, communicators of weak interaction”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Simon
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of the Netherlands
- Place of birth
- The Hague
- Place of death
- Geneva
- Occupation
- inventor
- Employer
- Koninklijke Philips NV
- Languages spoken
- French
- Field of work
- physics
- Image
- Simon van der Meer in the AA Control Room (cropped).jpg
- Residence
- The Hague
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- member of
- Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- date of birth
- 1925-11-24
- Commons category
- Simon van der Meer
- Erdős number
- 6
- date of death
- 2011-03-04
- cause of death
- cancer
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in native language
- Simon van der Meer
- interested in
- physics
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Biography
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