Simon van der meer

Field	Information
Full Name	Simon van der Meer
Date of Birth	24 November 1925
Place of Birth	The Hague, Netherlands
Date of Death	04 March 2011
Place of Death	Geneva, Switzerland
Citizenship / Country of Residence	Dutch
Education	Delft University of Technology
Profession	Particle accelerator physicist
Years of Activity	1956-1990
Brief Information	Simon van der Meer was a Dutch particle accelerator physicist. He is known for his contributions to stochastic cooling, a technique used to concentrate beams of protons and antiprotons, enabling high-energy particle collisions. This work was crucial for the experimental discovery of the W and Z bosons at CERN in 1983, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1984.