Leon M. Lederman

1922 - 2018

Country of citizenship: United States

Languages spoken, written or signed: English

Educated at: City College of New York, Columbia University, James Monroe High School

Occupation: particle physicist, university teacher, physicist

Award received: Guggenheim Fellowship, Great Cross of the National Order of Scientific Merit, Nobel Prize in Physics, Elliott Cresson Medal, William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement, Wolf Prize in Physics, Enrico Fermi Award, National Medal of Science, Philip Hauge Abelson Prize, Richtmyer Memorial Lecture Award, Fellow of the American Physical Society, Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, Washington Award

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Leon Max Lederman (July 15, 1922 – October 3, 2018) was an American experimental physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988, along with Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger, for research on neutrinos. He also received the Wolf Prize in Physics in 1982, along with Martin Lewis Perl, for research on quarks and leptons. Lederman was director emeritus of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, Illinois. He founded the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, in Aurora, Illinois in 1986, where he was resident scholar emeritus from 2012 until his death in 2018. An accomplished scientific writer, he became known for his 1993 book The God Particle establishing the popularity of the term for the Higgs boson. Source: Wikipedia (en)