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“My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family.”

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Simon van der Meer

Simon van der Meer was a Dutch physicist renowned for his contributions to particle physics. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1964 for his discovery of the positron, which had a profound impact on the development of particle accelerators. more

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