Remembering Dr. Leon Lederman

Leon Lederman was awarded the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics, along with Melvin Schwartz and jack Steinberger, for his work on the neutrino beam method and the demonstration of the doublet structure of leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino. Besides his work as a particle physicist, Dr. Lederman was the director of the Fermi Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois for a decade. He was a lifelong proponent of science education and was instrumental in the creation of a model high school, the Illinois Math and Science Academy.