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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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"Do not forget you mother, when she is old."

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"Children see beauty in everything."

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"You can become a model of a perfect man or a devoted husband and a father in order to show the role of the a man's responsibility for the family."

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"Do not refuse to help your own relatives."

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"A man's work is from sun to sun but a mother's work is never done."

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"Mothers care in volumes of tears and earnestness of prayers and a depth of emotion others cannot fathom."

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"Children are great observers."

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"Never sever ties with a family member you once loved. Each of you might be on different spiritual paths, but both trails are leading you home."

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"You are evidence of your mother's strength, especially if you are a rebellious knucklehead and regardless she has always maintained her sanity."

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"He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit."

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

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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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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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