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| |birth_name=Leon Max Lederman
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| |name = Leon M. Lederman
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| |caption=Lederman on May 11, 2007
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| |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1922|07|15|mf=yes}}
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| |birth_place = [[New York City]], [[New York]], U.S.
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| |residence = United States
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| |nationality = [[United States]]
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| |field = [[Physics]]
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| |known_for = Seminal contributions to [[Neutrino]]s, [[bottom quark]]
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| |awards = [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] (1988)<br/>[[Wolf Prize in Physics]] (1982)<br/>[[National Medal of Science]] (1965)<br/>[[Vannevar Bush Award]] (2012)<br/>[[William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement]] (1991)
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| |workplaces = [[Columbia University]]<br>[[Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory]]<br>[[Illinois Institute of Technology]]
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| |alma_mater = [[City College of New York]]<br />[[Columbia University]]
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| |spouse=Florence Gordon (3 children)<br>Ellen Carr<ref>[http://books.google.ca/books?id=00r9waSNv1cC&pg=PA223&lpg=PA223&dq=Ellen+Carr+LEON+Lederman&source=bl&ots=zUA83Uq5F-&sig=WUdROhA1GZs1QrPOK6ZhS6pa0UI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=PIcXUdLZKOmkyQGs4IGYCg&ved=0CCQQ6AEwAw American Scientists - Charles W. Carey - Google Books<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
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| '''Leon Max Lederman''' (born July 15, 1922) is an American experimental physicist who received, along with [[Martin Lewis Perl]], the [[Wolf Prize in Physics]] in 1982, for their research on [[quarks]] and [[leptons]], and the [[Nobel Prize for Physics]] in 1988, along with [[Melvin Schwartz]] and [[Jack Steinberger]], for their research on [[neutrinos]]. He is Director Emeritus of [[Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory]] (Fermilab) in [[Batavia, Illinois]], USA. He founded the [[Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy]], in [[Aurora, Illinois]] in 1986, and has served in the capacity of Resident Scholar since 1998.<ref name=Nobel_biography>{{cite journal|last=Lederman|first=Leon M.|title=The Nobel Prize in Physics 1988: Leon M. Lederman, Melvin Schwartz, Jack Steinberger|url=http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1988/lederman.html|journal=[http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_organizations/nobelfoundation/publications/lectures/index.html Nobel Lectures, Physics 1981–1990]|year=1988|accessdate=22 May 2012|editor1-first=Tore|editor1-last=Frängsmyr|editor2-first=Gösta |editor2-last=Ekspång|publisher=[[World Scientific|World Scientific Publishing Co.]]|location=Singapore}}</ref> In 2012, he was awarded the [[Vannevar Bush Award]] for his extraordinary contributions to understanding the basic forces and particles of nature.<ref>[http://www.nsf.gov/nsb/awards/bush_recipients.jsp#a2012 National Science Board - Honorary Awards - Vannevar Bush Award Recipients<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
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| ==Early life and career==
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| Lederman was born in New York City, New York, the son of Minna (née Rosenberg) and Morris Lederman, a laundryman.<ref>[http://books.google.ca/books?id=UXUbesKLjBoC&pg=PA229&dq=Minna+Rosenberg+Morris+Lederman&hl=en&redir_esc=y Fermilab: Physics, the Frontier, and Megascience - Lillian Hoddeson, Adrienne W. Kolb, Catherine Westfall - Google Books<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Lederman graduated from the [[James Monroe High School (New York)|James Monroe High School]] in the [[South Bronx]]. He received his [[bachelor's degree]] from the [[City College of New York]] in 1943, and received a [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] from [[Columbia University]] in 1951. He then joined the Columbia faculty and eventually became [[Eugene Higgins]] Professor of Physics. He took an extended leave of absence from Columbia in 1979 to become director of Fermilab. Resigning from Columbia (and retiring from Fermilab) in 1989 to teach briefly at the [[University of Chicago]], he then moved to the [[IIT Physics Department|physics department]] of the [[Illinois Institute of Technology]], where he currently serves as the Pritzker Professor of Science. In 1991, Lederman became President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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| Lederman is also one of the main proponents of the "[[Physics First]]" movement. Also known as "Right-side Up Science" and "Biology Last," this movement seeks to rearrange the current high school science curriculum so that physics precedes chemistry and biology.
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| A former president of the [[American Physical Society]], Lederman also received the [[National Medal of Science]], the [[Wolf Prize]] and the [[Ernest O. Lawrence Medal]]. Lederman serves as President of the Board of Sponsors of The [[Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists]]. He also served on the board of trustees for Science Service, now known as [[Society for Science & the Public]], from 1989 to 1992.
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| Among his achievements are the discovery of the [[muon|muon neutrino]] in 1962 and the [[bottom quark]] in 1977. These helped establish his reputation as among the top particle physicists.
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| In 1977, a group of physicists led by Leon Lederman announced that a particle with a mass of about 6.0 GeV was being produced by the Fermilab particle accelerator. The particle's initial name was the [[greek letter]] [[Upsilon]] (<math>\Upsilon\,</math>). After taking further data, the group discovered that this particle did not actually exist, and the "discovery" was named "[[Oops-Leon]]" as a pun on the original name ([[English pronunciation of Greek letters|mispronounced]] {{IPAc-en|ˈ|juː|p|s|ɨ|l|ɒ|n}}) and Lederman's first name.
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| As the director of [[Fermilab]] and subsequent [[Nobel Prize for physics|Nobel physics prizewinner]], Leon Lederman was a very prominent early supporter – some sources say the architect<ref name="SSC LA Times">{{cite news|last=ASCHENBACH|first=JOY|title=No Resurrection in Sight for Moribund Super Collider : Science: Global financial partnerships could be the only way to salvage such a project. But some feel that Congress delivered a fatal blow.|url=http://articles.latimes.com/1993-12-05/news/mn-64100_1_superconducting-super-collider|accessdate=16 January 2013|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=1993-12-05|quote=Disappointed American physicists are anxiously searching for a way to salvage some science from the ill-fated superconducting super collider ... "We have to keep the momentum and optimism and start thinking about international collaboration," said Leon M. Lederman, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist who was the architect of the super collider plan}}</ref> or proposer<ref name='"HoddesonKolb2003"'>{{cite web|title=Vision to reality: From Robert R. Wilson's frontier to Leon M. Lederman's Fermilab|url=http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.0486|work=arXiv:1110.0486|accessdate=16 January 2013|author=Lillian Hoddeson (Professor of History at the University of Illinois) and Adrienne Kolb (Fermilab archivist and author)|quote=Lederman also planned what he saw as Fermilab's next machine, the Superconducting SuperCollider (SSC)}} direct link: [http://arxiv.org/pdf/1110.0486v1]</ref> – of the [[Superconducting Super Collider]] project, which was endorsed around 1983, and was a major proponent and advocate throughout its lifetime.<ref name="Illinois Issues 1987">{{cite news|last=Abbott|first=Charles|title=Illinois Issues journal, June 1987|url=http://www.lib.niu.edu/1987/ii8706tc.html|date=June 1987|page=18|quote=Lederman, who considers himself an unofficial propagandist for the super collider, said the SSC could reverse the physics brain drain in which bright young physicists have left America to work in Europe and elsewhere.}} (direct link to article: [http://www.lib.niu.edu/1987/ii870618.html])</ref><ref name="Caltech">{{cite journal|last=Kevles|first=Dan|journal=[[California Institute of Technology]] "Engineering & Science"|volume=58 no. 2|issue=Winter 1995|pages=16–25|title=Good-bye to the SSC|url=http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/568/1/ES58.2.1995.pdf|accessdate=16 January 2013|quote=Lederman, one of the principal spokesmen for the SSC, was an accomplished high-energy experimentalist who had made Nobel Prize-winning contributions to the development of the Standard Model during the 1960s (although the prize itself did not come until 1988). He was a fixture at congressional hearings on the collider, an unbridled advocate of its merits []}}</ref> Lederman later wrote his 1993 [[popular science]] book ''[[The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question?]]'' – which sought to promote awareness of the significance of such a project – in the context of the project's last years and the changing political climate of the 1990s.<ref name="Calder 2005">{{cite book|last=Calder|first=Nigel|title=Magic Universe:A Grand Tour of Modern Science|year=2005|pages=369–370|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=E4NfZ9FDcc8C&pg=PA370&lpg=PA370&source=bl&ots=Z2tZ4UAN_B&sig=ce9IGzd2ZdqJZw60HuX_mb2qRfM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=GlL2UOjvL4bN0QW8vYDoAQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=title%20of%20a%20book&f=false|quote=The possibility that the next big machine would create the Higgs became a carrot to dangle in front of funding agencies and politicians. A prominent American physicist, Leon lederman, advertised the Higgs as The God Particle in the title of a book published in 1993 ...Lederman was involved in a campaign to persuade the US government to continue funding the Superconducting Super Collider... the ink was not dry on Lederman's book before the US Congress decided to write off the billions of dollars already spent}}</ref> The increasingly moribund project was finally shelved that same year after some $2 billion of expenditure.<ref name="SSC LA Times" />
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| In 1988, Lederman received the Nobel Prize for Physics along 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".<ref name=Nobel_biography/> Lederman also received the National Medal of Science (1965), the [[Elliott Cresson Medal]] for Physics (1976), the Wolf Prize for Physics (1982) and the [[Enrico Fermi Award]] (1992).
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| In 1995, he received the [[Chicago History Museum]] "Making History Award" for Distinction in Science Medicine and Technology.
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| Lederman was an early supporter of [[Science Debate 2008]], an initiative to get the then-candidates for president, [[Barack Obama]] and [[John McCain]], to debate the nation's top science policy challenges. In October 2010, Lederman participated in the [[USA Science and Engineering Festival]]'s Lunch with a Laureate program where middle and high school students got to engage in an informal conversation with a Nobel Prize-winning Scientist over a brown bag lunch.<ref>[http://www.usasciencefestival.org/2010festival/schoolprograms/lunchwithalaureate]{{dead link|date=October 2013}}</ref> Lederman was also a member of the [[USA Science and Engineering Festival]]'s Advisory Board <ref>[http://www.usasciencefestival.org/about/advisors USA Science and Engineering Festival - Advisors<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> and [[CRDF Global]].
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| ==Personal life==
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| Lederman was born in [[New York]] to a family of [[Jewish]]{{citation needed|date=June 2013}} immigrants from [[Russia]]. His father operated a hand laundry while encouraging Leon to pursue his education. He went to elementary school in New York City, continuing on to college and his doctorate in the city.<ref>Lederman, Leon M. "Leon M. Lederman – Autobiography." http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1988/lederman-autobio.html Retrieved 06 April 2009. Published 1988, The Nobel Foundation.</ref>
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| In his book,''[[The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question?]]'', Lederman writes that, although he was a chemistry major, he became fascinated with physics, because of the clarity of the logic and the unambiguous results from experimentation. His best friend during his college years, [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/02/nyregion/02klein.html?_r=1 Martin Klein], convinced him of "the splendors of physics during a long evening over many beers." After that conversation he became resolute and unwavering regarding his desire to pursue physics. When he [http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/led0bio-1 joined the Army] with a B.S. in Chemistry, he was determined to become a physicist following his service.<ref name="autogenerated5">The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, What is the Question – page 5 <br />''by Leon Lederman with Dick Teresi'' (copyright 1993) Houghton Mifflin Company</ref>
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| After three years in the U.S. Army during World War II, he took up [http://search.columbia.edu/search?q=lederman&site=Columbia&client=columbia&proxystylesheet=columbia&output=xml_no_dtd&filter=0&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=www.columbia.edu%2Fcu%2Fphysics physics]
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| at [http://www.columbia.edu/ Columbia University], and received his Masters in 1948.
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| Lederman began his Ph.D research working with Columbia's Nevis [[Synchrocyclotron|synchro-cyclotron]],<ref>see '''High Energy Physics''' section on this page: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/physics/news/DeptHistory/index/</ref> which was the most powerful particle accelerator in the world at that time.<ref name="autogenerated5"/> [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]], then the president of Columbia University, and future president of the United States, cut the ribbon dedicating the synchro-cyclotron in June 1950.<ref>Eisenhower at ribbon cutting for the dedication of the Nevis syncho-cyclotron http://www.columbia.edu/cu/physics/images/columbia-cyclotron.jpeg</ref> These atom smashers were just coming of age at this time and created the new discipline of particle physics.<ref name="autogenerated5"/>
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| After receiving his Ph.D and then becoming a faculty member at Columbia University he was promoted to full professor in 1958.<ref>The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, What is the Question – page 296 <br />''by Leon Lederman with Dick Teresi'' (copyright 1993) Houghton Mifflin Company</ref>
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| In "The God Particle" he once wrote "The history of atomism is one of reductionism – the effort to reduce all the operations of nature to a small number of laws governing a small number of primordial objects." <ref>The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, What is the Question – page 87 <br />''by Leon Lederman with Dick Teresi'' (copyright 1993) Houghton Mifflin Company</ref> And this was the quest he undertook. This book shows that he pursued the quark, and hopes to find the Higgs boson. The top quark, which he and other physicists realized must exist according to the standard model, was, in fact, produced at Fermilab not long after this book was published.<ref>Observation of Top Quark Production in [anti-p][and][p] Collisions with the Collider Detector at Fermilab http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v74/i14/p2626_1</ref>
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| He is known for his sense of humor in the physics community.<ref>The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, What is the Question – page 17 – by Leon Lederman with Dick Teresi (copyright 1993) Houghton Mifflin Company</ref> On August 26, 2008 Lederman was video-recorded by a science focused organization called ScienCentral, on the street in a major U.S. city, answering questions from passersby.<ref>Street Corner Science with Leon Lederman, <br />http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/08/26/street-corner-science-with-leon-lederman</ref> He answered questions such as "What is the strong force?" and "What happened before the Big Bang?".
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| He has three children with his first wife, Florence Gordon, and now lives with his second wife, Ellen (Carr), in Batavia, Illinois.<ref>Lederman, Leon M. "Leon M. Lederman – Autobiography." http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1988/lederman-autobio.html Retrieved 29.7.2008. Published 1988, The Nobel Foundation.</ref>
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| He is an [[atheist]].<ref>{{cite web|title=It’s the Atheist Particle, actually|url=http://archive.is/Et4cP|publisher=Postnoon News|accessdate=10 July 2012|author=Babu Gogineni|date=July 10, 2012|quote=Leon Lederman is himself an atheist and he regrets the term, and Peter Higgs who is an atheist too, has expressed his displeasure, but the damage has been done!}}</ref>
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| ==Publications==
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| * ''[[The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question?]]'' by Leon M. Lederman, [[Dick Teresi]] (ISBN 0-385-31211-3)
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| * ''From Quarks to the Cosmos'' by Leon Lederman and [[David Schramm (astrophysicist)|David N. Schramm]] (ISBN 0-7167-6012-6)
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| * ''Portraits of Great American Scientists'' Leon M. Lederman, et al. (ISBN 1-57392-932-8)
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| * ''Symmetry and the Beautiful Universe'' Leon M. Lederman and [[Christopher T. Hill]] (ISBN 1-59102-242-8)
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| * [http://www.newsweek.com/id/157516 ''What We'll Find Inside the Atom'']{{dead link|date=October 2013}} by Leon Lederman is an essay he wrote for the September 15, 2008 issue of Newsweek
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| * "Quantum Physics for Poets" Leon M. Lederman and [[Christopher T. Hill]] (ISBN 978-1616142339)
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| ==Honorary degrees and awards==
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| * Election to the [[National Academy of Sciences]], 1965.
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| * U.S. National Medal of Science, 1965.
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| * Member, [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]], 13 May 1970.
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| * Townsend Harris Medal, Alumni Association of the City College of New York, 1973.
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| * Elliot Cresson Prize of the Franklin Institute, 1976.
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| * President Jimmy Carter's Committee on the National Medal of Science, 21 March 1979.
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| * Wolf Foundation Prize in Physics, Israel, 1982.
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| * Doctor of Science, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 10 June 1983.
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| * Doctor of Humane Letters and Science, IIT, Chicago, Illinois, 17 May 1987.
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| * Doctor of Science, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, Illinois, 7 May 1988.
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| * Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15 May 1988.
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| * Department of Energy Distinguished Associate Award, May 1988.
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| * Doctor of Science, City College of New York, New York, New York, 8 June 1988.
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| * Nobel Prize in Physics, December 1988.
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| * La laurea honoris causa in Fisica, Universita' degli Studi di Pisa, 21 March 1989.
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| * Member, [[American Philosophical Society]], 21 April 1989.
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| * Doctor of Science, honoris causae, Aurora University, Aurora, Illinois, 20 May 1989.
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| * Doctor of Humane Letters, Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois, 3 June 1989.
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| * Citation on the occasion of the dedication of IMSA (founded 1985) to the State of Illinois in honor of Leon Lederman and Gov. James Thompson, IMSA, Aurora, Illinois, 10 June 1989.
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| * Doctor of Humane Letters, Rush University, Chicago, Illinois, 10 June 1989.
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| * Doctor of Science, University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois, 11 June 1989.
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| * Doctor en Filosofia – Fisica, Honoris Causa, Universidad de Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico, 2 August 1989.
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| * Honorary Degree, Academia Nacional de Ciencias Exactas, Fisicas y Naturales, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 3 November 1989.
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| * Doctor of Philosophy of Physics, honoris causa, University of Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico, 1989.
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| * Appointment as member of the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board, U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, DC, 15 February 1990.
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| * Laureate of the Lincoln Academy, State of Illinois, Springfield, Illinois, 21 April 1990.
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| * Doctor of Science, Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois, 19 May 1990.
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| * Doctor of Science, Columbia University, New York, New York, 26 September 1990.
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| * Public Affairs Committee Award, American Chemical Society, 22 March 1991.
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| * 1991 William Proctor Prize, Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, 1991.
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| * Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, The City University of New York, New York City, New York, 11 May 1992.
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| * Doctor of Science, Adelphi University, Long Island, New York, 17 May 1992.
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| * Doctor of Science, honoris causa, Saint Xavier University, Chicago, Illinois, 23 May 1992.
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| * Doctor of Science – honoris causa, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, 10 July 1992.
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| * Doctor of Science, honoris causa, Drury College, Springfield, Missouri, 14 October 1992.
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| * Enrico Fermi Prize of the U.S. Department of Energy, 1992.
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| * Doctor of Humane Letters, State University of New York, Geneseo, New York, 15 May 1993.
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| * Doctor of Science, honoris causa, Case-Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, 23 May 1993.
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| * President's Medal, The City College, The City University of New York, New York, New York, 28 May 1993.
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| * Doctor of Science, honoris causa, Marywood College, Scranton, Pennsylvania, 15 October 1993.
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| * Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa, Illinois Benedictine College, Lisle, Illinois, 21 May 1994.
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| * Appointment as a Tetelman Fellow at Jonathan Edwards College, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 7 November 1994.
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| * Doctor of Humane Letters, University of Dallas, Dallas, Texas, 15 November 1994.
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| * The first Enrico Fermi History Maker Award, for distinction in Science, Medicine and Technology, Chicago Historical Society, Chicago, Illinois, 8 June 1995.
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| * Doctor, honoris causa, Institute for High Energy Physics, Protvino, Russia, 15 July 1998.
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| * Member, President Bill Clinton's Commission on White House Fellowships, 13 April 1999.
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| * Diploma, Miembro Correspondiente, La Academia Mexicana de Ciencias, October 1999.
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| * 1999 Medallion, Division of Particles and Fields, Mexican Physical Society, Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico, 11 November 1999.
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| * Honorary Professor, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, 5 November 2000.
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| * Doctor of Science Education, honoris causa, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 12 December 2004.
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| * Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa, Dominican University, River Forest, Illinois, 6 May 2006.
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| * Doctor of Science, Honoris Causa, Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minnesota, 24 October 2008.
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| * Vannevar Bush Prize, 2012.<ref>[http://history.fnal.gov/honorary.html Fermilab History and Archives Project | Leon M. Lederman Honorary Degrees and Awards<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
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| ==See also==
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| * [[List of Jewish Nobel laureates]]
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| ==References==
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| ==External links==
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| * [http://thesciencenetwork.org/programs/the-science-studio/robert Education, Politics, Einstein and Charm] ''The Science Network'' interview with Leon Lederman
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| * [http://www.osti.gov/accomplishments/lederman.html Biography and Bibliographic Resources], from the [[Office of Scientific and Technical Information]], [[United States Department of Energy]]
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| * [http://www-ed.fnal.gov/samplers/hsphys/people/lederman.html Fermilab's Leon M. Lederman webpage]
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| * [http://www.nobel.se/physics/laureates/1988/ The Nobel Prize in Physics 1988]
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| * [http://nobelprize.org/mediaplayer/index.php?id=411 Video Interview with Lederman from the Nobel Foundation]
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| * [http://www.nobel.se/physics/laureates/1988/lederman-autobio.html Leon M. Lederman – Autobiography]
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| * [http://www.nobel-winners.com/Physics/leon_max_lederman.html Timeline of Nobel Prize Winners in Physics webpage for Leon Max Lederman]
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| * [http://www-ed.fnal.gov/lml/Leon_life.html ''Story of Leon'' by Leon Lederman]
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| * [http://www.honeywellscience.com/ Honeywell – Nobel Interactive Studio]
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| * [http://www.fi.edu/winners/1976/lederman_leon.faw?winner_id=3329 1976 Cresson Medal recipient] from The [[Franklin Institute]].
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| | SHORT DESCRIPTION = American mathematician and physicist
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