Awards & Winners

Simon van der Meer

Date of Birth 24-November-1925
Place of Birth The Hague
(South Holland, Kingdom of the Netherlands, Netherlands)
Nationality Netherlands, Switzerland
Profession Physicist
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, two of the most fundamental constituents of matter.

Awards by Simon van der Meer

Check all the awards nominated and won by Simon van der Meer.

1984


Nobel Prize in Physics
(for their decisive contributions to the large project, which led to the discovery of the field particles W and Z, communicators of weak interaction.)