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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.
Leon Lederman is the recipient of fellowships from the Ford, Guggenheim, Ernest Kepton Adams and National Science Foundations. He is a founding member of the High Energy Physics Advisory Panel (to AEC, DOE) and the International Committee on Future Accelerators.
Come direttore del Fermilab e successivamente come premio Nobel per la fisica, Lederman è stato un importante sostenitore del progetto del Superconducting Super Collider che è stato approvato intorno al 1983.
Leon M. Lederman. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1988. Born: 15 July 1922, New York, NY, USA. Died: 3 October 2018, Rexburg, ID, USA. Affiliation at the time of the award: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL, USA.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1988 was awarded jointly to Leon M. Lederman, 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 neutrino"
3 ott 2018 · Leon Lederman, a Nobel Prize – winning physicist and passionate advocate for science education who coined the term "the God particle," died today at age 96. His death was announced by Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, Illinois, where he was director from 1978 to 1989.
5 nov 2018 · From his mentor at Columbia, Nobel-prizewinning physicist Isidor Isaac Rabi, Lederman learnt to distinguish observation (a hint of something new) from measurement (a more precise endeavour).