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Leon M. Lederman

1922 - 2018

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Leon M. Lederman is the 253rd most popular physicist (down from 238th in 2019), the 1,083rd most popular biography from United States (down from 942nd in 2019) and the 54th most popular American Physicist.

Leon M. Lederman is most famous for being the director of Fermilab, a particle physics laboratory in Batavia, Illinois, from 1979 to 1989.

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Among physicists, Leon M. Lederman ranks 253 out of 851. Before him are Ratko Janev, Anton Zeilinger, Kenneth G. Wilson, C. P. Snow, Jim Peebles, and Benjamin Thompson. After him are John L. Hall, John Archibald Wheeler, Igor Kurchatov, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Abdus Salam, and Chien-Shiung Wu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Leon M. Lederman ranks 48. Before him are Nikolay Basov, Miguel Muñoz, Liliane Bettencourt, Arthur Ashkin, Jacques Piccard, and Nils Liedholm. After him are Ademir de Menezes, Seymour Martin Lipset, Roger Etchegaray, Renata Tebaldi, Yang Chen-Ning, and Cornelius Castoriadis. Among people deceased in 2018, Leon M. Lederman ranks 47. Before him are John Gavin, Aaron Klug, Burt Reynolds, Sondra Locke, Arto Paasilinna, and V. S. Naipaul. After him are Charles K. Kao, Bernard Lewis, Paul Allen, Jamal Khashoggi, Jin Yong, and Gudrun Burwitz.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Leon M. Lederman ranks 1,083 out of 20,380. Before him are Kevin Kline (1947), Henry Mancini (1924), Tobin Bell (1942), Donald J. Cram (1919), Roy Cohn (1927), and Arthur Kennedy (1914). After him are Richard Kiel (1939), John Searle (1932), Keith Haring (1958), Ritchie Valens (1941), Carroll Shelby (1923), and Richard Crenna (1926).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Leon M. Lederman ranks 54. Before him are Frederick Reines (1918), Robert Hofstadter (1915), Arthur Ashkin (1922), David Bohm (1992), Kenneth G. Wilson (1936), and Benjamin Thompson (1753). After him are John L. Hall (1934), John Archibald Wheeler (1911), Julian Schwinger (1918), John Hasbrouck Van Vleck (1899), David J. Wineland (1944), and John C. Mather (1946).

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