Laureate

Leon M. Lederman

1922–2018 · United States · Male

Awards

  1. 1982

    Wolf Prize — Physics

    Physics

    for their experimental discovery of unexpected new particles establishing a third generation quarks and leptons.

  2. 1988

    Nobel Prize — Physics

    Physics

    for the neutrino beam method and the demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino