Leon Lederman

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.

References

Books




  What We'll Find Inside the Atom by Leon Lederman is an essay he wrote for the September 15, 2008 issue of Newsweek


Other websites
 Education, Politics, Einstein and Charm  The Science Network interview with Leon Lederman
 Biography and Bibliographic Resources, from the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, United States Department of Energy
 Fermilab's Leon M. Lederman webpage 
 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1988 
 Video Interview with Lederman from the Nobel Foundation
 Leon M. Lederman – Autobiography
 Timeline of Nobel Prize Winners in Physics webpage for Leon Max Lederman
 Story of Leon by Leon Lederman
  Honeywell – Nobel Interactive Studio 
 1976 Cresson Medal recipient  from The Franklin Institute.

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