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Leon M. Lederman
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American mathematician and physicist
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Leon M. Lederman was an American male author and physicist who lived from 1922 to 2018. He is recognized in the Nobel Physics collection and the American Academy Arts Sciences collection. His published works include *The God Particle*, *La Particula Divina*, *Enfants, chercheurs et citoyens*, and *Nuclear and particle physics annual*.
Lederman’s writings have been cataloged with varying counts, including five works according to Crossref and fourteen according to Open Library. He is also associated with an Erdős number of 6. A quote attributed to him states, "Science is not about status quo. It’s about revolution."
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Physics1988
“for the neutrino beam method and the demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino”
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- physicist
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- Columbia University
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- Washington Award
- Field of work
- physics
- Sport
- chess
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- World War II
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Encyclopedic overview
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. He founded the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, in Aurora, Illinois in 1986, where he was resident scholar emeritus from 2012 until his death in 2018.
An accomplished scientific writer, he became known for his 1993 book The God Particle establishing the popularity of the term for the Higgs boson.
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