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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. Lederman was director emeritus of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, Illin…
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science · American mathematician and physicist (1922–2018) · particle physicist · university teacher · physicist · also Leon M. Lederman, Leon Lederman, Léon Lederman, Leon Max Lederman, Lederman
Born 15 July 1922 · Died 3 October 2018 · Q192695
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Died 2018-10-03.
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At a care facility in Rexburg, Idaho, at the age of 96
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And, after struggling with medical bills, he had to sell his Nobel Prize medal for $765,000 to cover the costs in 2015
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Lederman was video-recorded by a science focused organization called ScienCentral, on the street in New York City, answering questions from passersby
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Awarded Philip Hauge Abelson Prize (2000).
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Received the Chicago History Museum "Making History Award" for Distinction in Science Medicine and Technology
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Awarded Enrico Fermi Award (1992).
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Awarded Washington Award (1992).
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Lederman served as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
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Awarded William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement (1991).
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Then taught briefly at the University of Chicago
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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for the neutrino beam method and the demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino.
Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1988).
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Lederman received the Nobel Prize for Physics along with Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger "for the neutrino beam method and the demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon
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Along with Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger, for research on neutrinos
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Awarded Richtmyer Memorial Lecture Award (1986).
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Where he was resident scholar emeritus from 2012 until his death in 2018
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Awarded Wolf Prize in Physics (1982).
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Along with Martin Lewis Perl, for research on quarks and leptons
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Won Elliott Cresson Medal (1976).
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A group of physicists, the E288 experiment team, led by Lederman announced that a particle with a mass of about 6
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Won National Medal of Science (1965).
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On leave from Columbia, he spent time at CERN in Geneva as a Ford Foundation Fellow
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Lederman worked on parity violation in weak interactions
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Studied at Columbia University, doctorate (1951).
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Enrolled at Columbia University's graduate school, receiving his Ph
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Born 1922-07-15.
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