Simon van der Meer

Simon van der Meer
Born	(1925-11-24)24 November 1925 The Hague, Netherlands
Died	4 March 2011(2011-03-04) (aged 85) Geneva, Switzerland
Alma mater	Delft University of Technology
Known for	Discovery of W and Z bosons Stochastic cooling Van der Meer horn
Awards	Duddell Medal and Prize (1982) Nobel Prize in Physics (1984)
Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	CERN

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.^[1][2]