Lund-Gill Chair 2006, Leon M. Lederman
About Leon M. Lederman
Nobel Prize-winning physicist Leon M. Lederman was the inaugural Lund-Gill Chair in 2006, teaching a junior honors seminar on science, technology and education in the 21st century.
During a remarkable career spanning more than four decades, Dr. Lederman’s research has ranged from subatomic-article physics through pioneering experiments with neutrino beams to the discovery of the third generation of quarks. His many honors include the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics, the National Medal of Science and the Enrico Fermi Prize presented by President Bill Clinton in 1993.
Lederman is director emeritus of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and founder of the Teachers Academy for Mathematics and Science. He served as chair of the State of Illinois Governor’s Science Advisory Committee and is a founder of the inaugural resident scholar program at the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy.
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