Nobel Prize in Physics 1984

Carlo Rubbia

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Simon van der Meer

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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1984 was awarded jointly to Carlo Rubbia and Simon van der Meer "for their decisive contributions to the large project, which led to the discovery of the field particles W and Z, communicators of weak interaction"

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