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Simon van der Meer

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Simon van der Meer

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Dutch physicist (1925–2011)

OverviewAI-generated

Simon van der Meer was a person associated with Germany. He was born on 24 November 1925 and died on 4 March 2011. His academic work is reflected in an Erdős number of 6 and a total of five recorded works.

He received one Nobel Prize. His recognition is documented in the Nobel Physics collection, the Nobel Laureates collection, and the American Academy Arts Sciences collection.

Synthesized by Vinony from 16 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Nobel Prize, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
DE

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
2
Total plays
2

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Moderated estimation of fold change and dispersion for RNA-seq data with DESeq2

    · 2014 · cited 88,397x

  2. Measuring inconsistency in meta-analyses

    · 2003 · cited 52,630x

  3. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

    · 2021 · cited 43,497x

  4. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

    · 2020 · cited 36,423x

  5. PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR): Checklist and Explanation

    · 2018 · cited 36,125x

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Quotes

  • “Above all, it's creative thinking that lies at the basis of discoveries. You must dare to think differently, see things from different sides, in order to come across fortuitous new ideas frequently. You should develop even the most stupid ideas and when you do this systematically, there will always come something useful out of it.”

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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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