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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)