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 300,320 page views. His biography is available in 62 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 56 in 2019). Leon M. Lederman is the 185th most popular physicist (up from 206th in 2019), the 846th most popular biography from United States (down from 748th in 2019) and the 28th 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 185 out of 721. Before him are Alexander Prokhorov, Donald A. Glaser, Osborne Reynolds, Satyendra Nath Bose, Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, and George E. Smith. After him are Roy J. Glauber, Joseph Rotblat, Polykarp Kusch, Charles H. Townes, Sheldon Lee Glashow, and Richard E. Taylor.
1916 - 2002
HPI: 71.89
Rank: 179
1926 - 2013
HPI: 71.89
Rank: 180
1842 - 1912
HPI: 71.89
Rank: 181
1894 - 1974
HPI: 71.84
Rank: 182
1921 - 2011
HPI: 71.83
Rank: 183
1930 - Present
HPI: 71.73
Rank: 184
1922 - 2018
HPI: 71.62
Rank: 185
1925 - 2018
HPI: 71.61
Rank: 186
1908 - 2005
HPI: 71.54
Rank: 187
1911 - 1993
HPI: 71.47
Rank: 188
1915 - 2015
HPI: 71.42
Rank: 189
1932 - Present
HPI: 71.42
Rank: 190
1929 - 2018
HPI: 71.41
Rank: 191
Among people born in 1922, Leon M. Lederman ranks 43. Before him are Nikolay Basov, Julius Nyerere, Hans Georg Dehmelt, Nándor Hidegkuti, Renata Tebaldi, and Lucian Freud. After him are Ahmed Sékou Touré, Liliane Bettencourt, Nils Liedholm, Dana Zátopková, Manolis Glezos, and Richard Hamilton. Among people deceased in 2018, Leon M. Lederman ranks 32. Before him are Ursula K. Le Guin, Arto Paasilinna, Francis Lai, Hubert de Givenchy, Arvid Carlsson, and Barbara Bush. After him are Riccardo Giacconi, Roy J. Glauber, Stéphane Audran, Richard E. Taylor, Gudrun Burwitz, and Bernard Lewis.
1922 - 2001
HPI: 72.23
Rank: 37
1922 - 1999
HPI: 72.21
Rank: 38
1922 - 2017
HPI: 72.01
Rank: 39
1922 - 2002
HPI: 71.87
Rank: 40
1922 - 2004
HPI: 71.87
Rank: 41
1922 - 2011
HPI: 71.84
Rank: 42
1922 - 2018
HPI: 71.62
Rank: 43
1922 - 1984
HPI: 71.44
Rank: 44
1922 - 2017
HPI: 71.41
Rank: 45
1922 - 2007
HPI: 71.26
Rank: 46
1922 - 2020
HPI: 71.24
Rank: 47
1922 - 2020
HPI: 71.13
Rank: 48
1922 - 2011
HPI: 70.90
Rank: 49
1929 - 2018
HPI: 72.40
Rank: 26
1942 - 2018
HPI: 72.39
Rank: 27
1932 - 2018
HPI: 72.21
Rank: 28
1927 - 2018
HPI: 71.84
Rank: 29
1923 - 2018
HPI: 71.83
Rank: 30
1925 - 2018
HPI: 71.62
Rank: 31
1922 - 2018
HPI: 71.62
Rank: 32
1931 - 2018
HPI: 71.62
Rank: 33
1925 - 2018
HPI: 71.61
Rank: 34
1932 - 2018
HPI: 71.51
Rank: 35
1929 - 2018
HPI: 71.41
Rank: 36
1929 - 2018
HPI: 71.22
Rank: 37
1916 - 2018
HPI: 71.05
Rank: 38
Among people born in United States, Leon M. Lederman ranks 846 out of 15,968. Before him are Don Cherry (1936), Robert Downey Jr. (1965), Groucho Marx (1890), Edward Norton (1969), Theodore Schultz (1902), and Barbara Bush (1925). After him are Roy J. Glauber (1925), Pat Morita (1932), Susan B. Anthony (1820), Michael Cimino (1939), Lana Turner (1921), and James Brendan Connolly (1868).
1936 - 1995
HPI: 71.66
Rank: 840
1965 - Present
HPI: 71.65
Rank: 841
1890 - 1977
HPI: 71.64
Rank: 842
1969 - Present
HPI: 71.63
Rank: 843
1902 - 1998
HPI: 71.63
Rank: 844
1925 - 2018
HPI: 71.62
Rank: 845
1922 - 2018
HPI: 71.62
Rank: 846
1925 - 2018
HPI: 71.61
Rank: 847
1932 - 2005
HPI: 71.60
Rank: 848
1820 - 1906
HPI: 71.60
Rank: 849
1939 - 2016
HPI: 71.60
Rank: 850
1921 - 1995
HPI: 71.58
Rank: 851
1868 - 1957
HPI: 71.58
Rank: 852
Among physicists born in United States, Leon M. Lederman ranks 28. Before him are Robert Coleman Richardson (1937), Michio Kaku (1947), Steven Weinberg (1933), Donald A. Glaser (1926), Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921), and George E. Smith (1930). After him are Roy J. Glauber (1925), Charles H. Townes (1915), Sheldon Lee Glashow (1932), John L. Hall (1934), Willis Lamb (1913), and Melvin Schwartz (1932).
1937 - 2013
HPI: 72.16
Rank: 22
1947 - Present
HPI: 72.09
Rank: 23
1933 - Present
HPI: 72.04
Rank: 24
1926 - 2013
HPI: 71.89
Rank: 25
1921 - 2011
HPI: 71.83
Rank: 26
1930 - Present
HPI: 71.73
Rank: 27
1922 - 2018
HPI: 71.62
Rank: 28
1925 - 2018
HPI: 71.61
Rank: 29
1915 - 2015
HPI: 71.42
Rank: 30
1932 - Present
HPI: 71.42
Rank: 31
1934 - Present
HPI: 71.36
Rank: 32
1913 - 2008
HPI: 71.31
Rank: 33
1932 - 2006
HPI: 71.24
Rank: 34