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Simon van der Meer

"I visited the Gymnasium in The Hague and passed my final examination (in the sciences section) in 1943."

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"I visited the Gymnasium in The Hague and passed my final examination (in the sciences section) in 1943."

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Donna Grant

"I don't know, examination I guess. And then they put the jump suit back on me again. I went through the compound - I remember somebody shouting, Jim don't let them break you."

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Donna Grant

"I visited the Gymnasium in The Hague and passed my final examination (in the sciences section) in 1943."

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Donna Grant

"We also have issue oriented storylines which are an examination of an issue, be it ethical or social."

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Donna Grant

"To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of."

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Simon van der Meer
"My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family."

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Simon van der Meer
"I visited the Gymnasium in The Hague and passed my final examination (in the sciences section) in 1943."

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Simon van der Meer
"Since then, I have worked with the group that commissioned and improved the ring and that is now preparing the construction of a second ring to increase the p stacking rate by an order of magnitude."

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Simon van der Meer
"After developing a primitive theory (1968) I therefore did not pursue this subject. However, the work was taken up by others and in 1974 the first experiments were done in the ISR."

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Simon van der Meer
"Nevertheless, if I have at times been able to make original contributions in the accelerator field, I cannot help feeling that to a certain extent my slightly amateur approach in physics, combined with much practical experience, was an asset."

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Simon van der Meer
"My interest in matters more directly concerned with the handling of particles was growing, in the meantime, stimulated by many contacts with people understanding accelerators."

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Simon van der Meer
"Under these conditions it is not astonishing that learning was highly prized; in fact, my parents made sacrifices to be able to give their children a good education."

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Simon van der Meer
"At this time, my work on the SPS power supplies had just come to an end; I joined a study group on the pp project and an experimental team studying cooling in a small ring (ICE)."

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