Leon Lederman
Linda Zabors
Leon Lederman was a Nobel Prize winning Physicist, for his team discovery of the Muon Neutrino. In 1979 he became the Director of the Fermi National Accelerator Lab and built the Tevatron, the world’s highest-energy particle accelerator. He was a professor at the University of Chicago and at the Illinois Institute of Technology, a board member of the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry, and the Illinois Math and Science Academy
Alumni
Columbia University, PhD Physics
City College of New York, Chemistry
Nobel Prize 1988
Veteran: U.S. Army, WWII, 2nd Lieutenant, Signal Corp
Honorary Leon Lederman Way
33rd Street from State Street to LaSalle Street
Approved: October 2020
Ward: 3
Alderman: Dowell
Neighborhood: IIT
b. July 15, 1922. New York City
d. October 3, 2018. Age 96. Idaho
Near
Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT)