biography
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Lederman, Leon M(ax)
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pronunciation:
[layderman]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1922– )
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in New York City, USA. He taught and carried out research at Columbia (1951–79), before becoming director of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (1979–89). He shared the 1988 Nobel Prize for Physics with Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger for their discovery (1960–2) of the muon neutrino. He led the team which discovered the fifth quark, the b quark, in 1977. A prolific researcher in particle physics, he retired from Fermilab to teach at the University of Chicago in 1989. |
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