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Simon van der Meer 1925–, Dutch physical engineer. He spent his career at the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN; now the European Laboratory for Particle Physics), where he did his most important work with Carlo Rubbia. They discovered the subatomic particles W and Z, which convey the weak force, one of nature's four fundamental forces. For their discovery, they were awarded the 1984 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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