Article: LEON MAX LEDERMAN JACK STEINBERGER MELVIN SCHWARTZ JOHANN DEISENHOFER ROBERT HUBER HARMUT MICHEL.(Main)

Byline: New York Times

The 66-year-old Leon Max Lederman has been director of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Chicago since 1979. But it was work he did in the early 1960s, while teaching at Columbia University and doing research at Brookhaven National Laboratory at Upton, Suffolk County, that earned him a share of this year's Nobel Prize in physics.

Lederman was born July 15, 1922, in New York City, the son of Russian immigrants, and grew up in the Bronx. After earning a bachelor's degree at the City College of New York, where he majored in chemistry but got more fun out of his physics courses, he went on to study physics on a scholarship at ...

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