Biography:Simon van der Meer

Simon van der Meer (1925-2011) was a Dutch accelerator physicist. His stochastic cooling technique was crucial for the proton-antiproton collider work that led to discovery of the W and Z bosons at CERN.

He shared the 1984 Nobel Prize in Physics with Carlo Rubbia. In the Quantum Collection, his name is linked with the experimental route to the electroweak gauge bosons.