Leon Lederman

Leon max Lederman (born in 1922) is a American Physicien, Nobel Prize of physics in 1988 for its work on the neutrinos.

Biography

Leon Lederman was born the July 13rd 1922 with New York. He studies in City College of New York until 1943, he joined the American army then. After the war, in 1946, it resumes its studies with the Université Columbia where it supports its thesis of doctorate in 1951. He becomes professor in 1958, then directs the laboratory of the Columbia university of 1961 to at 1978. He works during this time with his colleagues Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger on a method of detection of the Neutrino S, which will lead them to the Nobel Prize. In 1977, he discovers the Quark bottom. In 1979, it is named director of the Fermilab, then joined the Université of Chicago in 1989. It creates in 1995 a scientific educational center in Fermilab.

Publications

The God Particle : Yew the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question? by Leon Mr. Lederman, Dick Teresi (ISBN 0-385-31211-3)
From Quarks to the Cosmos by Leon Lederman and David NR. Schramm (ISBN 0-7167-6012-6)
Portraits off Great American Scientists Leon Mr. Lederman and Al (ISBN 1-57392-932-8)
Symmetry and the Beautiful Universe Leon Mr. Lederman and Christopher T. Hill (ISBN 1-59102-242-8)

External bonds

Prizes winner of the Nobel Prize of physique 1988
Autobiography on the site of the foundation Nobel

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