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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
Carlo Rubbia Simon van der Meer
half 1/2 of the prize half 1/2 of the prize
Italy the Netherlands
CERN
Geneva, Switzerland		 CERN
Geneva, Switzerland
b. 1934 b. 1925
 
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