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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...
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  • Question? is a 1993 popular science book by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Leon M. Lederman and science writer Dick Teresi. The book provides a brief history of...
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  • leptons, hence the name muon neutrino. It was discovered in 1962 by Leon Lederman, Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger. The discovery was rewarded with...
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    Collider. Fermilab director and subsequent Nobel physics prizewinner Leon Lederman was a very prominent early supporter – some sources say the architect...
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  • sign a guitar) Harold Lederman (1940–2019), American boxing judge and analyst Jean-Marc Lederman, Belgian music composer Leon Lederman (born 1947), Israeli...
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    "God particle" after the 1993 book The God Particle by Nobel Laureate Leon Lederman. The name has been criticised by physicists, including Higgs. Physicists...
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  • Leon Lederman (1922–2018), American physicist and Nobel Prize winner Leon Leyson (1929–2013), Polish-American Holocaust survivor and author Léon Augustin...
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  • misrepresents the electrical activity of brainwaves. Victor Stenger and Leon Lederman were critical of attempts to use quantum mysticism to bridge any unexplained...
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    antiparticle. It was discovered by the E288 experiment team, headed by Leon Lederman, at Fermilab in 1977, and was the first particle containing a bottom...
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    of Interference of Light. Springer. p. 65. ISBN 978-0-8176-2316-6. Lederman, Leon M.; Christopher T. Hill (2011). Quantum Physics for Poets. US: Prometheus...
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    visiting professor (Hans Bethe), a doctoral student (Leon Lederman) and an undergraduate (Leon Cooper). Martin L. Perl, a doctoral student of Rabi's...
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  • in my opinion, is this superficial and profoundly misleading book. Leon M. Lederman, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and current Director Emeritus of Fermilab...
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  • Alexander Kaspi Masha Klinova (also WGM) Alexander Krayz Alexander Kundin Leon Lederman Gaby Livshitz Boris Maryasin Alexander Mikhalevski Gur Mittelman Shay...
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    In 1977, the bottom quark was observed by a team at Fermilab led by Leon Lederman. This was a strong indicator of the top quark's existence: without the...
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    Frederick Reines was the antiparticle of the electron neutrino. In 1962, Leon M. Lederman, Melvin Schwartz, and Jack Steinberger showed that more than one type...
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  • Bibcode:1964Sci...146..347P. doi:10.1126/science.146.3642.347. PMID 17739513. Leon Lederman, for teaching physics first, illustrates how to avoid confirmation bias:...
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    Universe is the Answer, What is the Question – pages 189 to 198 by Leon Lederman with Dick Teresi (copyright 1993) Houghton Mifflin Company "Transcript:...
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    would have gone into botany." and Enrico Fermi to advise his student Leon Lederman: "Young man, if I could remember the names of these particles, I would...
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    decay of cobalt-60.[citation needed] Simultaneously, R. L. Garwin, Leon Lederman, and R. Weinrich modified an existing cyclotron experiment and immediately...
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    ϒ (1S) state was discovered by the E288 experiment team, headed by Leon Lederman, at Fermilab in 1977, and was the first particle containing a bottom...
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    spoke on the relationship between science and the arts, including Leon Cooper, Leon Lederman, and Freeman Dyson. In 2002 the lectures were changed to weekly...
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  • deconstructive, late avant-garde Harry B. Gray—2004 Wolf Prize in Chemistry Leon M. Lederman—(Ph.D.) experimental physicist, Wolf Prize in Physics, National Medal...
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    30 under 30 interview, Pasterski named among her scientific heroes Leon Lederman, Dudley Herschbach, and Freeman Dyson, and said she was drawn to physics...
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    and Curie coming in different orders depending on their standards; Leon Lederman noted that Curie and Wu were equally above Meitner while Valentine Telegdi...
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    Achievement. Archived from the original on 2022-03-08. Retrieved 2022-03-22. "Leon Lederman Biography. Photo: June 24, 1982: Awards Council member and President...
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    Fermilab in 1976. The E288 experiment team, a group of physicists led by Leon Lederman who worked on the E288 particle detector, announced that a particle...
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  • scientist visits the school. Well known past speakers have included Leon Lederman in 2002 and Kip Thorne in 2005. He was inducted into Rensselaer's Hall...
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    into two pions. These two different modes of decay were observed by Leon Lederman and his coworkers in 1956, establishing the existence of the two weak...
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  • Yuval Ne'eman discover the Eightfold Way patterns, the SU(3) group 1962 Leon Lederman shows that the electron neutrino is distinct from the muon neutrino...
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    carry a quantum number called strangeness. It was first discovered by Leon Lederman and a group of scientists from Columbia University at Brookhaven National...
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