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Physique / LEDERMAN, LEON M.

lederman

Position

High-energy physicist,
Director Emeritus of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois.
Pritzker Professor of Science at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. USA.

Thèmes de recherche

With colleagues and students from Nevis he led an extensive and wide-ranging series of experiments that provided major advances in the understanding of particles and interactions, thus contributing significantly to what is known as the "standard model."
Major experiments included the observation of parity violation in decay of pi and mu mesons, the discovery of the long-lived neutral kaon, the discovery of two kinds of neutrinos and the discovery of the upsilon particle, the first evidence for the bottom quark.

Prix et récompenses

National Medal of Science (1965),
Elliot Cresson Medal of the Franklin Institute (1976),
Wolf Prize in Physics (1982),
Nobel Prize in Physics (1988), with Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger, "for the neutrino beam method and the demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino."
Enrico Fermi Prize (1993).

Publications

From Quarks to the Cosmos: Tools of Discovery (with David Schramm) 1995 W. H. Freeman

The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, What is the Question ? (1989, written with Dick Teresi), 1993 Dell/Bantam.