Simon van der Meer ( 24 November 1925 - 4 March 2011 ) was a Dutch particle accelerator physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1984 with Carlo Rubbia for contributions to the CERN project which led to the discovery of the W and Z particles , two of the most fundamental constituents of matter .
Simon van der Meer ( 24 November 1925 - 4 March 2011 ) was a Dutch particle accelerator physicist .