He would then work in his study late into the night (where we would find him going over piles of documents and briefing books if we had trouble sleeping).

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For years on end Mr van der Meer made a study of the statistical properties of the motion of particles in accelerators: sometimes late into the night, and sometimes lost in deep reflection.

ECONOMIST: Simon van der Meer