- Simon van der Meer
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name = Simon van der Meer
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caption = Simon van der Meer
birth_date =November 24 ,1925
birth_place =The Hague
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nationality = Dutch
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field =physics
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known_for =stochastic cooling
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prizes =Nobel Prize in Physics
religion = |footnotes = |Simon van der Meer (born
November 24 ,1925 ,The Hague ) is a Dutch acceleratorphysicist who invented the concept ofstochastic cooling in colliders, making possible the discovery of theW particle and theZ particle at theCERN 500 Gevproton -antiproton collider by the UA-1 experimental collaboration led byCarlo Rubbia . As a result van der Meer and Rubbia shared the 1984Nobel Prize inPhysics .In 1952 van der Meer received an
engineer's degree in Technical Physics from theDelft University of Technology inthe Netherlands . He worked forPhilips until 1956, when he joinedCERN as staff until his retirement in 1990.Simon van der Meer together with
Ernest Orlando Lawrence are the only two accelerator physicists awarded with the Nobel prize.External links
* [http://nobelprize.org/physics/laureates/1984/meer-autobio.html Autobiography]
* [http://cerncourier.com/main/article/43/4/13/1/cernwz7_5-03 Carlo Rubbia and Simon van der Meer celebrating the Nobel prize]
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