Leon M. Lederman

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Leon M. Lederman
Lederman on May 11, 2007
BornLeon Max Lederman
15 Julie 1922(1922-07-15)
New York Ceety, New York, U.S.
Dee'dOctober 3, 2018 (aged 96)
ResidenceUnitit States
NaitionalityUnitit States
Alma materCity College of New York
Columbia Varsity
Kent forSeminal contreibutions tae neutrinos, bottom quark
Hauf-marrae(s)Florence Gordon (3 bairns)
Ellen Carr[1]
AwairdsNobel Prize in Physics (1988)
Wolf Prize in Physics (1982)
Naitional Medal o Science (1965)
Vannevar Bush Awaird (2012)
William Procter Prize for Scienteefic Achievement (1991)
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsColumbia Varsity
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Illinois Institute of Technology

Leon Max Lederman (born Julie 15, 1922; deed October 3, 2018) wis an American experimental physicist wha received the Wolf Prize in Physics in 1982, alang wi Martin Lewis Perl, for thair resairch on quarks an leptons, an the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1988, alang wi Melvin Schwartz an Jack Steinberger, for thair resairch on neutrinos.

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  1. Charles W. Carey (14 Mey 2014). American Scientists. Infobase Publishing. p. 223. ISBN 978-1-4381-0807-0.