Simon van der Meer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Simon van der Meer

Dutch physicist

Date of Birth: 24-Nov-1925

Place of Birth: The Hague, County of Holland, Netherlands

Date of Death: 04-Mar-2011

Profession: physicist, inventor

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

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, two of the most fundamental constituents of matter.