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Leon M. Lederman
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Lederman on May 11, 2007
Born
Leon Max Lederman

(1922-07-15)July 15, 1922
Died October 3, 2018(2018-10-03) (aged 96)
Nationality United States
Alma mater City College of New York
Columbia University
Known for Seminal contributions to Neutrinos, bottom quark
Spouse(s) Florence Gordon (3 children)
Ellen Carr
Awards Nobel Prize in Physics (1988)
Wolf Prize in Physics (1982)
National Medal of Science (1965)
Vannevar Bush Award (2012)
William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement (1991)
Scientific career
Fields Physics
Institutions Columbia University
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Illinois Institute of Technology

Leon Max Lederman (July 15, 1922 – October 3, 2018) was an American experimental physicist. He received, along with Martin Lewis Perl, the Wolf Prize in Physics in 1982. He won the prize for their research on quarks and leptons, and the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1988. He received the prize along with Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger, for their research on neutrinos.

Lederman was of Jewish descent. He was an atheist.

Lederman died on October 3, 2018 at a care-facility in Rexburg, Idaho from complications of dementia at the age of 96.


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