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- Leon Lederman was born on July 15, 1922 in Buffalo, New York, USA. He was married to Ellen Carr and Florence Gordon. He died on October 3, 2018 in Rexburg, Idaho, USA.
- SpousesEllen Carr(1981 - October 3, 2018) (his death)Florence Gordon (divorced, 3 children)
- In 2015, he decided to auction off his Nobel medal, in part to raise awareness of physics.
- He shared the Nobel Prize in physics in 1988 for his part in the discovery of the muon neutrino, a subatomic lepton elementary particle. This was accomplished at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York. His co-laureates are Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger.
- He coined the phrase "the God particle" to describe the Higgs boson.
- He majored in chemistry at the City College of New York. Then he served as an officer in the Army Signal Corps during WWII.
- After winning the Nobel Prize, he taught freshmen at the University of Chicago and the Illinois Institute of Technology. He introduced a course called "physics for poets," aimed at students majoring in the humanities.
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