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In which year did Simon van der Meer pass away?

  • 2011

  • 1984

  • 2000

  • 1995

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Simon van der Meer passed away in 2011. He was a Dutch physicist who shared the 1984 Nobel Prize in Physics with Carlo Rubbia for their work on the Large Electron–Positron Collider (LEP) at CERN. Van der Meer's contributions to the development of particle accelerators were crucial in the discovery of the W and Z bosons, which are fundamental particles that mediate the weak force.
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