Simon Van Der Meer Quotes

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).

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.

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

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

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.