Leon M. Lederman - Nobel Prize in Physics — 1988
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Leon M. Lederman

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics — 1988
for the neutrino beam method and the demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino
Citizenship
United StatesUnited States
Languages
English
date of birth
7/15/1922
place of birth
Buffalo, New York City
date of death
10/3/2018
place of death
Rexburg
Lived
96 years
occupation
  • university teacher
  • physicist
  • particle physicist
field of work
  • physics
educated at
  • City College of New York
  • Columbia University
    • academic degree: doctorate
    • academic major: physics
    • end time: 1951
  • James Monroe High School
employer
  • University of Chicago
  • Fermilab
  • Columbia University
  • Illinois Institute of Technology
member of
  • National Academy of Sciences
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1989
  • American Physical Society
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
doctoral student
  • Thomas W. L. Sanford
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