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

- 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 c…

- 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 ex…

- 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…

- 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 u…

- Simon Van Der Meer

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

- Simon Van Der Meer