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Leon M. Lederman Career, Discoveries and Awards
His Career
| July 15, 1922 | Leon Max Lederman born in New York City |
| 1927 | Attended PS 92 on Broadway and 95th Street, New York |
| July 15, 1935 | Bar Mitzvah |
| June, 1939 | Graduation from James Monroe High School, New York |
| 1943 | Graduation from City College of New York, B.S. in Chemistry |
| 1943-1946 | U.S. Army Signal Corps, stationed in France |
| 1948 | M.S. in Physics, Columbia University |
| 1951 | Ph.D. in Physics, Columbia University |
| 1951-1989 | Faculty, Columbia University |
| 1953-1961 | Associate Director, Nevis Laboratories, Irvington, New York |
| 1961-1979 | Director, Nevis Laboratories, Irvington, New York |
| 1972 | Eugene Higgins Professor, Columbia University |
| 1979-1989 | Director, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory |
| 1983 | Founder, Friends of Fermilab Association |
| 1985 | Founder, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy |
| 1989-1992 | Frank E. Sulzberger Professor, University of Chicago |
| 1989-1992 | Science Advisor to Governor of Illinois |
| 1990 | Founder, Teachers Academy of Mathematics and Science in Chicago |
| 1990-1993 | President-Elect, President and Chairman of the Board, American Association for the Advancement of Science |
| 1992-present | Pritzker Professor of Science, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago |
| 1998-2012 | Resident Scholar, Great Minds Program, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy |
Major Discoveries and Awards
| 1956 | Discovery of Neutral K-Meson |
| 1957 | Discovery of Parity Violation in Pion and Muon Decay |
| 1961-1962 | Two-Neutrino Experiment |
| 1965 | Discovery of Antideuteron Election to the National Academy of Sciences |
| 1965 | U.S. National Medal of Science |
| 1969 | Discovery of Drell-Yan Process |
| 1976 | Elliot Cresson Prize of the Franklin Institute |
| 1977 | Discovery of Upsilon, bottom quark |
| 1982 | Wolf Foundation Prize in Physics (Israel) |
| 1988 | Nobel Prize in Physics |
| 1992 | Enrico Fermi Prize of the US Department of Energy |
| 2012 | Vannevar Bush Prize |