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Show 213, "Will This Universe Ever End?"
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Dr. Leon Max Lederman

Leon Lederman was born in New York City, the second son of Russian-Jewish immigrants. He studied chemistry at City College of New York, receiving his BS in 1943. After serving in the army during World War II, he studied physics at Columbia University, earning his Master's in 1948 and his Ph.D. in 1951. Dr. Lederman remained at Columbia for nearly 30 years as the Eugene Higgins Professor and, from 1961 until 1979, as director of Nevis Laboratories in Irvington, the Columbia physics department center for experimental research in high-energy physics. With colleagues and students from Nevis he led an intensive and wide-ranging series of experiments which have provided major advances in the understanding of "weak interactions," one of the fundamental nuclear forces. His early award-winning research in high-energy physics brought him into national science policy circles and in 1963 he proposed the idea that became the National Accelerator Laboratory. In 1977 Lederman led the team that discovered the subatomic particle known as the bottom quark at Fermilab. The following year he was named Director and his administration brought Fermilab into its position of scientific prominence by 1983 with the achievement of the world's most powerful superconducting accelerator, the Tevatron.

A convinced proponent of science education, Lederman opened Fermilab to countries not previously associated with high energy physics. During his term as Director, Lederman also emphasized the importance of math and science education as outreach to the neighboring communities. He initiated the Saturday Morning Physics lectures and subsequently founded the Friends of Fermilab. The 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Lederman and his old partners, Schwartz and Steinberger for "transforming the ghostly neutrino into an active tool of research."

In 1989, Dr. Lederman stepped down as Director of Fermilab and assumed the title director emeritus. He then served as Frank L. Sulzberger Professor of Physics at the University of Chicago, and pursued his increasing interest in the problems of science education in American schools. He founded the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, the first state-wide residence public school for gifted children, and the Teacher's Academy of Mathematics and Science in Chicago.

Today, Dr. Lederman is Pritzker Professor of Physics at the Illinois Institute of Technology . He is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences and has received numerous awards besides the Nobel, including the National Medal of Science (1965), the Elliot Cresson Medal of the Franklin Institute (1976), and the Wolf Prize in Physics (1982). He is a past chairman and president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 1993 he was awarded the Enrico Fermi Prize by President Bill Clinton.  He has served as founding member of the High-Energy Physics Advisory Panel and the International Committee for Future Accelerators.

In 1994, researchers at Fermilab achieved an old goal of Dr. Lederman's, detecting the top quark, the bottom quark's elusive companion, which had escaped observation for the previous 17 years.

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