What is Leon Lederman?
{{nobelprize|Physics}} {{Infobox scientist |birth_name=Leon Max Lederman |name = Leon M. Lederman |image = Leon M. Lederman.jpg |image_size = |caption=Lederman on May 11, 2007 |birth_date = {{birth date|1922|07|15|mf=yes}} |birth_place = [[New York City]], [[New York (state)|New York]], U.S.<ref>{{cite book| last1 = Hoddeson| first1 = Lillian| last2 = Kolb| first2 = Adrienne W.| last3 = Westfall| first3 = Catherine| title = Fermilab: Physics, the Frontier, and Megascience| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=UXUbesKLjBoC&pg=PA229| year = 2009| publisher = University of Chicago Press| isbn = 978-0-226-34625-0| page = 229 }}</ref> |death_date = {{death date and age|2018|10|3|1922|7|15|mf=yes}} |death_place = [[Rexburg, Idaho]], U.S. |nationality = [[United States]] |field = [[Physics]] |known_for = Seminal contributions to [[Neutrino]]s, [[bottom quark]] |awards = [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] (1988)<br/>[[Wolf Prize in Physics]] (1982)<br/>[[National Medal of Science]] (1965)<br/>[[Vannevar Bush Award]] (2012)<br/>[[William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement]] (1991) |workplaces = [[Columbia University]]<br>[[Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory]]<br>[[Illinois Institute of Technology]] |alma_mater = [[City College of New York]]<br />[[Columbia University]] |doctoral_advisor = |spouse=Florence Gordon (3 children)<br>Ellen Carr<ref>{{cite book| last = Carey| first = Charles W.| title = American Scientists| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=00r9waSNv1cC&pg=PA223| year = 2014| publisher = Infobase Publishing| isbn = 978-1-4381-0807-0| page = 223 }}</ref> }} '''Leon Max Lederman''' (July 15, 1922 &ndash; October 3, 2018) was an [[Americans|American]] experimental physicist. He received, along with [[Martin Lewis Perl]], the [[Wolf Prize in Physics]] in 1982. He won the prize for their research on [[quarks]] and [[leptons]], and the [[Nobel Prize for Physics]] in 1988. He received the prize along with [[Melvin Schwartz]] and [[Jack Steinberger]], f