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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| Label | Occurrences |
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| Simon van der Meer canonical | 5 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
Dutch person
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Nobel laureate ⓘ human ⓘ particle physicist ⓘ physicist ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Nobel Prize in Physics ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | natural causes ⓘ |
| citizenship | Netherlands ⓘ |
| 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 ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | Switzerland ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1925-11-24 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2011-03-04 ⓘ |
| education | Delft University of Technology ⓘ |
| employer | CERN ⓘ |
| era | 20th-century physics ⓘ |
| familyName | van der Meer ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
accelerator physics
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particle physics ⓘ |
| fullName | Simon van der Meer self-link ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Simon ⓘ |
| influenced | design of later hadron colliders ⓘ |
| invented | stochastic cooling technique ⓘ |
| knownFor | innovations in particle accelerator technology ⓘ |
| memberOf | CERN staff ⓘ |
| nationality | Dutch ⓘ |
| nobelPrizeIn | Physics ⓘ |
| 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 ⓘ |
| nobelPrizeYear | 1984 ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | stochastic cooling ⓘ |
| notableWork | development of antiproton accumulation techniques ⓘ |
| occupation | physicist ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | The Hague ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Geneva ⓘ |
| residence | Geneva ⓘ |
| sharedNobelPrizeWith | Carlo Rubbia ⓘ |
| workLocation | Geneva ⓘ |
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