Lederman's personal data

Leon Lederman1922 July15 was born in an immigrant family in new york, and his father ran a handmade laundry room. Lederman attended elementary school, middle school and city college in new york since childhood, and then went to Columbia University, where he received his doctorate 195 1. He studied chemistry at first, and then transferred to physics because of the influence of I.Halpern and his middle school classmate M.J.Klein. 1943 served in the U.S. army for three years after graduation, and entered the physics graduate school of Columbia University chaired by Professor Rabbi from 1946. At that time, the physics department was building a 385MeV synchrotron. From 65438 to 0948, Leon Lederman joined the accelerator laboratory and worked with Professor Booth, the director of the accelerator laboratory. His doctoral thesis is about the construction of Wilson Cloud Room. At this time, Rabbi invited many experts to Colombia to participate in the work of accelerators, and promoted this new topic, including Steinberg. 195 1 year, Leon Lederman finished his doctoral thesis and was invited to stay for 28 years. A lot of work has been done on π mesons here.

1958 leon lederman went to CERN for academic leave and worked for one year. There, he organized a group to do the g-2 experiment.

196 1 year, Leon Lederman was the director of Nevis laboratory until 1978. 65438-0979 Director of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, responsible for building the first superconducting electron synchrotron, which was the most powerful accelerator in the world at that time.

Leon lederman is an effective experimental physicist. He discovered the neutral k meson in 1956. He studied the generation of lepton pairs in hadron collisions and initiated a new direction of experimental high-energy physics. He first made an experimental test on Li He's non-conservation principle in π-μ-e decay, and submitted a paper to Physical Review on the same day of the cobalt 60 experiment. Antineutrinos were found in1965; Gamma particles were found in 1977.

Leon lederman retired from Fermilab in 1989 and became a professor of physics at the University of Chicago. This year, he was also hired as a scientific adviser to the governor of Illinois. He helped establish a normal college and trained science and math teachers, and nearly 20,000 teachers studied there. 199 1 was elected president of the American association for the advancement of science.