Leon M. Lederman, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Leon M. Lederman

American mathematician and physicist

Date of Birth: 15-Jul-1922

Place of Birth: Buffalo, New York, United States

Date of Death: 03-Oct-2018

Profession: physicist, mathematician, university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

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.