Born: 1922-07-15 in New York, NY, USA
Gender: male
Field: American mathematician and physicist (1922–2018)
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, 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.
Awarded on: 1988-10-19
"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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