Simon van der Meer
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Simon van der Meer was a Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate whose innovations in particle accelerator technology were crucial to major discoveries in high-energy physics.
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| instanceOf |
Dutch person
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Nobel laureate → human → particle physicist → physicist → |
| awardReceived |
Nobel Prize in Physics
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| causeOfDeath |
natural causes
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| citizenship |
Netherlands
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| contributedTo |
design of the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS)
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discovery of W boson → discovery of Z boson → high-energy proton–antiproton collisions at SPS → proton–antiproton collider at CERN → |
| countryOfBirth |
Netherlands
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| countryOfDeath |
Switzerland
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| dateOfBirth |
1925-11-24
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| dateOfDeath |
2011-03-04
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| education |
Delft University of Technology
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| employer |
CERN
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| era |
20th-century physics
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| familyName |
van der Meer
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| fieldOfWork |
accelerator physics
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particle physics → |
| fullName |
Simon van der Meer
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| gender |
male
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| givenName |
Simon
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| influenced |
design of later hadron colliders
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| invented |
stochastic cooling technique
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| knownFor |
innovations in particle accelerator technology
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| memberOf |
CERN staff
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| nationality |
Dutch
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| nobelPrizeIn |
Physics
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| nobelPrizeMotivation |
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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| nobelPrizeYear |
1984
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| notableAchievement |
stochastic cooling
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| notableWork |
development of antiproton accumulation techniques
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| occupation |
physicist
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| placeOfBirth |
The Hague
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| placeOfDeath |
Geneva
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| residence |
Geneva
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| sharedNobelPrizeWith |
Carlo Rubbia
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| workLocation |
Geneva
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Referenced by (3)
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Z boson
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Simon van der Meer
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fullName |
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Carlo Rubbia
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sharesNobelPrizeWith |