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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1984
"for their decisive contributions to the large project, which led to the discovery of the field particles W and Z, communicators of weak interaction"
Carlo Rubbia
Simon van der Meer
1/2 of the prize
1/2 of the prize
Italy
the Netherlands
CERN
Geneva, Switzerland
CERN
Geneva, Switzerland
b. 1934
b. 1925
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