Simon van der Meer#
Sadly, this member passed away. | |
Membership Number: | 1027 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
Elected: | 1991 |
Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
Professor Simon van der Meer passed away March 4th, 2011.
Positions Held
- 1956 - 1990 Researcher at European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
- 1952 - 1956 Researcher at Philips Research Laboratory, Eindhoven
- 1952 PhD in Physics at Delft University of Technology
Fields of Scholarship
- Technique of stochastic cooling of particle beams
- Intermediate vector bosons (the W and Z bosons)
Honours and Awards
- Nobel Prize for Physics (1984)
- Duddell Metal, Institute of Physics (1982)
- Horzours Loeb Lecturer, Harvard University (1981)
- Member of Academia Europea (1991)
- Member of Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (1984)
- Foreign Honorary Member at American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1984)