PHYSICIST

Simon van der Meer

1925 - 2011

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Simon van der Meer is the 130th most popular physicist (up from 148th in 2019), the 42nd most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 63rd in 2019) and the 8th most popular Dutch Physicist.

Simon van der Meer is most famous for being a Dutch physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1984 for his contributions to the discovery of the subatomic J/psi particle.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Simon van der Meer ranks 130 out of 851. Before him are Joseph von Fraunhofer, Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, Alfred Kastler, Josiah Willard Gibbs, William Rowan Hamilton, and Arthur Compton. After him are James Rainwater, Carl Zeiss, Hans Bethe, James Franck, Robert Coleman Richardson, and Emilio Segrè.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Simon van der Meer ranks 25. Before him are Sammy Davis Jr., Pierre Boulez, Mikis Theodorakis, Bill Haley, Lee Van Cleef, and Audie Murphy. After him are Jack Lemmon, Robert F. Kennedy, Carlos Castaneda, Frantz Fanon, Rock Hudson, and Gerald Durrell. Among people deceased in 2011, Simon van der Meer ranks 17. Before him are Peter Falk, Burhanuddin Rabbani, Sócrates, Sathya Sai Baba, Svetlana Alliluyeva, and Rosalyn Sussman Yalow. After him are Rudolf Mössbauer, Ágota Kristóf, Joe Frazier, Herbert A. Hauptman, Jack LaLanne, and William Lipscomb.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Simon van der Meer ranks 42 out of 1,646. Before him are Leo Beenhakker (1942), William I of the Netherlands (1772), Jan van Riebeeck (1619), Guus Hiddink (1946), Rutger Hauer (1944), and Marco van Basten (1964). After him are Johan Huizinga (1872), Rinus Michels (1928), Jan Tinbergen (1903), James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth (1649), William II of the Netherlands (1792), and Jan Steen (1626).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Netherlands

Among physicists born in Netherlands, Simon van der Meer ranks 8. Before him are Hendrik Lorentz (1853), Daniel Bernoulli (1700), Pieter Zeeman (1865), Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1853), Johannes Diderik van der Waals (1837), and Peter Debye (1884). After him are Nicolaas Bloembergen (1920), Frits Zernike (1888), Martinus J. G. Veltman (1931), Gerard 't Hooft (1946), Jan Ingenhousz (1730), and Hans Kramers (1894).

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