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Leon Max Lederman (July

15, 1922 – October 3, 2018) was an American experimental physicist who received

the Wolf Prize in Physics in

1982, along with Martin Lewis Perl, for

their research on quarks and leptons, and the Nobel Prize in Physics in

1988, along with Melvin Schwartz and Jack

Steinberger, for their research on neutrinos. 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, and was Resident Scholar

Emeritus there from 2012 until his death in 2018.

An

accomplished scientific writer, he became known for his 1993 book The God Particle establishing

the importance of the Higgs boson. Lederman was

born in New York City, New York, to Morris and Minna (Rosenberg) Lederman. His

parents graduated from James Monroe

High School in the South Bronx, and received his bachelor's degree from

the City College of New York in

1943. He next enlisted in the United States Army

during World War II, intending to become a physicist after his

service. Following his discharge in 1946, he enrolled at Columbia University's

graduate school, receiving his Ph.D. in 1951. Lederman

became a faculty member at Columbia University, and he was promoted to full

professor in 1958 as Eugene Higgins Professor

of Physics.[8]:796 In 1960, on leave from Columbia, he

spent time at CERN in Geneva as a Ford Foundation Fellow. He took an extended leave of

absence from Columbia in 1979 to become director of Fermilab. Resigning

from Columbia (and retiring from Fermilab) in 1989, he then taught briefly at

the University of Chicago He

then moved to the physics department of

the Illinois Institute of

Technology, where he served as the Pritzker Professor of Science. In

1992, Lederman served as President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Lederman,

rare for a Nobel Prize winning professor, took it upon himself to teach physics

to non-physics majors at The University of Chicago.

Lederman

served as President of the Board of Sponsors of the Bulletin of the Atomic

Scientists, and at the time of his death was Chair Emeritus.[16] He also served on the board of

trustees for Science Service, now known as Society for

Science & the Public, from 1989 to 1992, and was a member of

the JASON defense advisory group.

Lederman was also one of the main proponents of the "Physics First" movement. Also known as "Right-side

Up Science" and "Biology Last," this movement seeks to rearrange

the current high school science curriculum so that physics precedes chemistry

and biology. Lederman was an early

supporter of Science Debate 2008, an

initiative to get the then-candidates for president, Barack Obama and John McCain, to debate the nation's top science policy

challenges. In October 2010, Lederman participated in the USA Science

and Engineering Festival's Lunch with a Laureate program where

middle and high school students engaged in an informal conversation with a

Nobel Prize-winning scientist over a brown-bag lunch. Lederman was also a

member of the USA Science

and Engineering Festival's Advisory Board. In 1956, Lederman worked

on parity violation in

weak interactions. R. L. Garwin, Leon Lederman, and R. Weinrich modified an existing cyclotron

experiment, and they immediately verified the parity violation. They delayed publication of their

results until after Wu's group was ready, and

the two papers appeared back to back in the same physics journal. Among his

achievements are the discovery of the muon

neutrino in 1962 and the bottom quark in 1977. These helped establish his

reputation as among the top particle physicists. In 1977, a group of

physicists, the E288

experiment team, led by Lederman announced that a particle with

a mass of about 6.0 GeV was being produced by the Fermilab particle

accelerator. After taking further data, the group discovered that this

particle did not actually exist, and the "discovery" was named "Oops-Leon" as a pun on the original name and Lederman's

first name. As the director

of Fermilab, Lederman was a prominent supporter of the Superconducting Super

Collider project, which was endorsed around 1983, and was a

major proponent and advocate throughout its lifetime. Also at Fermilab, he

oversaw the construction of the Tevatron, for decades the world's highest-energy particle

collider. Lederman later wrote his 1993 popular science book The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question? –

which sought to promote awareness of the significance of such a project – in

the context of the project's last years and the changing political climate of

the 1990s. The increasingly moribund project was finally shelved that same

year after some $2 billion of expenditures. In The God Particle he

wrote, "The history of atomism is one of reductionism – the effort to

reduce all the operations of nature to a small number of laws governing a small

number of primordial objects" while stressing the importance of the Higgs boson. In 1988, Lederman received the Nobel Prize for Physics along

with 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". Lederman

also received the National Medal of Science (1965), the Elliott Cresson Medal for

Physics (1976), the Wolf Prize for Physics (1982) and the Enrico Fermi Award (1992). In

1995, he received the Chicago History Museum "Making

History Award" for Distinction in Science Medicine and Technology. 

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