Lab Director Lederman with pipe in front of blackboard with beamline and budget. Leon Max Lederman (born 1922), American experimental physicist. Among his achievements are the discovery of the muon neutrino in 1962 and the bottom quark in 1977. He received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1988, with Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger, for their research on neutrinos. He is one of the main proponents of the Physics First movement, an educational program that teaches a basic physics course in the 9th grade, rather than the biology course which is more standard in public schools. Proponents argue that turning this order around lays the foundations for better understanding of chemistry, which in turn will lead to more comprehension of biology. In 2012, he was awarded the Vannevar Bush Award for his extraordinary contributions to understanding the basic forces and particles of nature. Photographed February 23, 1983. | |
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