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Leon M. Lederman

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Leon M. Lederman

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Also known as Leon Lederman, Léon Lederman, Leon Max Lederman

American mathematician and physicist

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Leon M. Lederman was born on July 15, 1922, and died on October 3, 2018. He received one Nobel Prize. His Erdős number is 6.

He is recognized in the Nobel Laureates collection, the Nobel Physics collection, the American Academy Arts Sciences collection, and the National Medal Of Science collection.

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physics1988

    “for the neutrino beam method and the demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Leon
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
New York City
Place of death
Rexburg
Occupation
physicist
Employer
Columbia University
Languages spoken
English language
Religion
agnosticism
Award
Washington Award
Field of work
physics
Sport
chess
Conflict
World War II
Military branch
United States Army
Image
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member of
American Physical Society
Commons category
Leon M. Lederman
date of birth
1922-07-15
Erdős number
6
nominated for
Nobel Prize in Physics
name in native language
Leon Max Lederman
date of death
2018-10-03
manner of death
natural causes
cause of death
dementia
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WikiProject Mathematics
interested in
physics
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Encyclopedic overview

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.

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