Simon van der Meer

Nobel Prize in Physics 1984

“for their decisive contributions to the large project, which led to the discovery of the field particles W and Z, communicators of weak interaction”

Simon van der Meer was a Dutch physicist affiliated with CERN. He shared the 1984 Nobel Prize in Physics with Carlo Rubbia for their decisive contributions to the large project that led to the discovery of the W and Z field particles, communicators of the weak interaction.