| Leon M. Lederman  AKA Leon Max Lederman
Born: 15-Jul-1922
Birthplace: New York City
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Researcher of neutrinos Military service: US Army (WWII, 1943-46, 2nd Lieutenant, Signal Corps) Father: Morris Lederman
Brother: Paul
Wife: Florence Gordon (two daughters, one son)
Daughter: Rena (anthropologist)
Son: Jesse (investment banker)
Daughter: Rachel (lawyer)
Wife: Ellen
University: BS, City College of New York (1943)
University: PhD Physics, Columbia University (1951)
Professor: Columbia University (1951-)
Academy of Achievement (1982)
America Coming Together
Council for a Livable World
Federation of American Scientists Board of Sponsors
Friends of Hillary
JASON
MoveOn.org
Obama for America
Science Debate 2008
Nobel Prize for Physics 1988 (with Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger)
National Medal of Science 1965
Wolf Prize in Physics 1982 (with Martin L. Perl)
Enrico Fermi Award 1992
Guggenheim Fellowship
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