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Leon M. Lederman

American mathematician and physicist · United States · Academics · Lived 1922 to 2018 · aged 96

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Leon Max Lederman 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.

A life in dates

2018Died3 October 20182000Philip Hauge Abelson PrizeAward1992Enrico Fermi AwardAwardWashington AwardAward1991William Procter Prize for Scientific AchievementAward1988Nobel Prize in PhysicsAward1986Richtmyer Memorial Lecture AwardAward1982Wolf Prize in PhysicsAward1976Elliott Cresson MedalAward1965National Medal of ScienceAward1922Born15 July 1922

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Lederman in May 2007Lederman in May 2007

Awards

Philip Hauge Abelson Prize2000
Enrico Fermi Award1992
Washington Award1992
William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement1991
Nobel Prize in Physics1988
Richtmyer Memorial Lecture Award1986
Wolf Prize in Physics1982
Elliott Cresson Medal1976
National Medal of Science1965
Guggenheim Fellowship
Grand Cross of the National Order of Scientific Merit
Fellow of the American Physical Society
Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry

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Child: Rena Lederman

About this person

Leon Max Lederman 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.

Country
United States
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1922 to 2018 · aged 96

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