Profile details
- Born
- 15 Jul 1922
- Birthplace
- New York City
- Country
- United States
- Sport
- Chess
- Discipline
- Mind
- Category
- Men
- Status
- Active
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Honours & Awards
- ▸Elliott Cresson Medal
- ▸Enrico Fermi Award
- ▸Fellow of the American Physical Society
- ▸Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry
- ▸Grand Cross of the National Order of Scientific Merit
- ▸Guggenheim Fellowship
- ▸National Medal of Science
- ▸Nobel Prize in Physics
- ▸Philip Hauge Abelson Prize
- ▸Richtmyer Memorial Lecture Award
- ▸Washington Award
- ▸William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement
- ▸Wolf Prize in Physics
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About
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.
Biography adapted from Leon M. Lederman on Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.