biography
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van der Meer, Simon
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| male
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| lived:
| (1925– )
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| biography:
| Physicist and engineer, born in The Hague, W Netherlands. He studied at the Technical University, Delft, and worked at the Philips research laboratories in Eindhoven (1952–5) before becoming senior engineer for CERN, Geneva (1956–90). He devised a method of particle beam focusing that was vital to the discovery of W and Z particles. He shared the 1984 Nobel Prize for Physics with Carlo Rubbia. |
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