The Nobel Prize in Physics 1984
Awarded on: 1984-10-17
"for their decisive contributions to the large project, which led to the discovery of the field particles W and Z, communicators of weak interaction"
Affiliations:
- CERN – Geneva, Switzerland
Simon van der Meer
Born: 1925-11-24 in the Hague, the Netherlands
Gender: male
Field: Dutch physicist (1925–2011)
Biography
Simon van der Meer 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.