Leon M. Lederman
Leon Max Lederman (born July 15, 1922) is an experimental physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics in 1988 for his work on neutrinos. He is Director Emeritus of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, Illinois. He founded the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, in Aurora, Illinois, in 1986.
He received his bachelor's degree from the City College of New York in 1943, and received a PhD from Columbia University in 1951.
Publications:
- The God Particle : If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question? by Leon Lederman, Dick Teresi (ISBN 0385312113)
- From Quarks to the Cosmos by Leon Lederman and David N. Schramm (ISBN 0716760126)
