1922 - 2018
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 408,126 page views. His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 62 in 2019). Leon M. Lederman is the 311th most popular physicist (down from 185th in 2019), the 1,770th most popular biography from United States (down from 845th in 2019) and the 63rd 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, Leon M. Lederman ranks 311 out of 717. Before him are Edmond Becquerel, Horst Ludwig Störmer, Stephen Hales, Jean-Charles de Borda, Gerard 't Hooft, and John Robert Schrieffer. After him are Toshihide Maskawa, Steven Chu, John Stewart Bell, Marguerite Perey, Nathan Rosen, and Otto Schmidt.
1820 - 1891
HPI: 58.66
Rank: 305
1949 - Present
HPI: 58.43
Rank: 306
1677 - 1761
HPI: 58.43
Rank: 307
1733 - 1799
HPI: 58.38
Rank: 308
1946 - Present
HPI: 58.38
Rank: 309
1931 - 2019
HPI: 58.36
Rank: 310
1922 - 2018
HPI: 58.31
Rank: 311
1940 - 2021
HPI: 58.31
Rank: 312
1948 - Present
HPI: 58.30
Rank: 313
1928 - 1990
HPI: 58.19
Rank: 314
1909 - 1975
HPI: 58.06
Rank: 315
1909 - 1995
HPI: 58.03
Rank: 316
1891 - 1956
HPI: 57.98
Rank: 317
Among people born in 1922, Leon M. Lederman ranks 85. Before him are Annemarie Schimmel, Elmer Bernstein, Abdul Razak Hussein, Veronica Lake, Gianna Beretta Molla, and Charles Mingus. After him are Hussein-Ali Montazeri, Marek Edelman, Damiano Damiani, Fikret Amirov, Serge Reggiani, and Paul Scofield. Among people deceased in 2018, Leon M. Lederman ranks 72. Before him are Ruud Lubbers, Thorvald Stoltenberg, Joe Jackson, Samir Amin, Oskar Gröning, and Eunice Gayson. After him are Robert Faurisson, Aharon Appelfeld, Tom Wolfe, Christine Nöstlinger, James Mirrlees, and Hayden White.
1922 - 2003
HPI: 58.84
Rank: 79
1922 - 2004
HPI: 58.77
Rank: 80
1922 - 1976
HPI: 58.75
Rank: 81
1922 - 1973
HPI: 58.74
Rank: 82
1922 - 1962
HPI: 58.62
Rank: 83
1922 - 1979
HPI: 58.59
Rank: 84
1922 - 2018
HPI: 58.31
Rank: 85
1922 - 2009
HPI: 58.31
Rank: 86
1922 - 2009
HPI: 58.21
Rank: 87
1922 - 2013
HPI: 58.03
Rank: 88
1922 - 1984
HPI: 57.98
Rank: 89
1922 - 2004
HPI: 57.97
Rank: 90
1922 - 2008
HPI: 57.92
Rank: 91
1939 - 2018
HPI: 58.86
Rank: 66
1931 - 2018
HPI: 58.81
Rank: 67
1928 - 2018
HPI: 58.51
Rank: 68
1931 - 2018
HPI: 58.37
Rank: 69
1921 - 2018
HPI: 58.35
Rank: 70
1928 - 2018
HPI: 58.33
Rank: 71
1922 - 2018
HPI: 58.31
Rank: 72
1929 - 2018
HPI: 58.23
Rank: 73
1932 - 2018
HPI: 58.17
Rank: 74
1930 - 2018
HPI: 57.99
Rank: 75
1936 - 2018
HPI: 57.85
Rank: 76
1936 - 2018
HPI: 57.79
Rank: 77
1928 - 2018
HPI: 57.72
Rank: 78
Among people born in United States, Leon M. Lederman ranks 1,770 out of 18,182. Before him are Tex Avery (1908), Loretta Young (1913), Moby (1965), Cab Calloway (1907), Aaron Eckhart (1968), and Edward T. Hall (1914). After him are Kim Peek (1951), Axl Rose (1962), Steven Chu (1948), Johnny Ramone (1948), Stevie Ray Vaughan (1954), and Michael Massee (1952).
1908 - 1980
HPI: 58.33
Rank: 1,764
1913 - 2000
HPI: 58.33
Rank: 1,765
1965 - Present
HPI: 58.33
Rank: 1,766
1907 - 1994
HPI: 58.33
Rank: 1,767
1968 - Present
HPI: 58.32
Rank: 1,768
1914 - 2009
HPI: 58.32
Rank: 1,769
1922 - 2018
HPI: 58.31
Rank: 1,770
1951 - 2009
HPI: 58.30
Rank: 1,771
1962 - Present
HPI: 58.30
Rank: 1,772
1948 - Present
HPI: 58.30
Rank: 1,773
1948 - 2004
HPI: 58.30
Rank: 1,774
1954 - 1990
HPI: 58.29
Rank: 1,775
1952 - 2016
HPI: 58.29
Rank: 1,776
Among physicists born in United States, Leon M. Lederman ranks 63. Before him are George Smoot (1945), Samuel C. C. Ting (1936), David Gross (1941), William Daniel Phillips (1948), Kenneth G. Wilson (1936), and John Robert Schrieffer (1931). After him are Steven Chu (1948), Nathan Rosen (1909), John Mauchly (1907), Frank Wilczek (1951), Karl Guthe Jansky (1905), and Walter A. Shewhart (1891).
1945 - Present
HPI: 59.60
Rank: 57
1936 - Present
HPI: 59.42
Rank: 58
1941 - Present
HPI: 59.33
Rank: 59
1948 - Present
HPI: 59.16
Rank: 60
1936 - 2013
HPI: 58.66
Rank: 61
1931 - 2019
HPI: 58.36
Rank: 62
1922 - 2018
HPI: 58.31
Rank: 63
1948 - Present
HPI: 58.30
Rank: 64
1909 - 1995
HPI: 58.03
Rank: 65
1907 - 1980
HPI: 57.77
Rank: 66
1951 - Present
HPI: 57.60
Rank: 67
1905 - 1950
HPI: 56.85
Rank: 68
1891 - 1967
HPI: 56.74
Rank: 69