PHYSICIST

Leon M. Lederman

1922 - 2018

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Leon Max Lederman (July 15, 1922 – October 3, 2018) was an American experimental physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988, along with Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger, for research on neutrinos. He also received the Wolf Prize in Physics in 1982, along with Martin Lewis Perl, for research on quarks and leptons. Lederman was director emeritus of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, Illinois. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leon M. Lederman has received more than 477,010 page views. His biography is available in 67 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 63 in 2019). Leon M. Lederman is the 237th most popular physicist (up from 312th in 2019), the 942nd most popular biography from United States (up from 1,769th in 2019) and the 51st most popular American Physicist.

Leon M. Lederman is most famous for being the director of Fermilab, a particle physics laboratory in Batavia, Illinois, from 1979 to 1989.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Leon M. Lederman ranks 237 out of 851. Before him are Burton Richter, Joseph Plateau, Serge Haroche, Horst Ludwig Störmer, William Shockley, and Rolf Maximilian Sievert. After him are Henry Way Kendall, John Kendrew, Valentin Ceaușescu, Bertram Brockhouse, Alexey Ekimov, and Patrick Blackett.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Leon M. Lederman ranks 49. Before him are Nils Liedholm, Julius Nyerere, Arthur Ashkin, Jason Robards, Cornelius Castoriadis, and Ademir de Menezes. After him are Michel Galabru, Betty White, Har Gobind Khorana, Robert W. Holley, Juan Antonio Villacañas, and Mao Anying. Among people deceased in 2018, Leon M. Lederman ranks 44. Before him are Jamal Khashoggi, Roy J. Glauber, Reynaldo Bignone, Burton Richter, Barbara Bush, and Günter Blobel. After him are Bernard Lewis, Shoko Asahara, Paul Allen, R. Lee Ermey, Milena Dravić, and Paul D. Boyer.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Leon M. Lederman ranks 942 out of 20,380. Before him are Jody Williams (1950), Harry Dean Stanton (1926), Kenneth Arrow (1921), Edgar Cayce (1877), Estée Lauder (1906), and Kobe Bryant (1978). After him are James Earl Jones (1931), Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933), Billy Bob Thornton (1955), Eugene Merle Shoemaker (1928), Chick Corea (1941), and Bugsy Siegel (1906).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Leon M. Lederman ranks 51. Before him are John Clauser (1942), Murray Gell-Mann (1929), Sheldon Lee Glashow (1932), Roy J. Glauber (1925), Frederick Reines (1918), and Burton Richter (1931). After him are Henry Way Kendall (1926), John Archibald Wheeler (1911), Philip Warren Anderson (1923), John Hasbrouck Van Vleck (1899), Julian Schwinger (1918), and John Vincent Atanasoff (1903).

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