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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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    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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    "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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  • music composer Leon Lederman (born 1947), Israeli chess master Leon M. Lederman (1922-2018), Nobel laureate in physics Marty Lederman, Visiting Professor...
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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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  • 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 are critical of attempts to use quantum mysticism to bridge any unexplained...
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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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    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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