| Simon van der Meer  Born: 24-Nov-1925
Birthplace: The Hague, Netherlands
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist Nationality: Netherlands
Executive summary: Co-Discovered W and Z particles Father: Pieter van der Meer (schoolteacher)
Mother: Jetske Groeneveld
Wife: Catharina M. Koopman (m. 1966)
Daughter: Esther (b. 1968)
Son: Mathijs (b. 1970).
University: University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands (1952)
Nobel Prize for Physics 1984 (with Carlo Rubbia)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1984
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