The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details
Leon M. Lederman
Title:
Professor of Physics
Affiliation:
Columbia University
New York,New York USA
Gender:
Male
Year Deceased:
2018
Award Discipline:
Physical Sciences
Award Year:
1965
Citation:
"For systematic studies of mesons, for his participation in the discovery of two kinds of neutrinos and of parity violation in the decay of mu-mesons."
Presented by President Johnson at a White House ceremony on February 10, 1966.
Nobel Laureate:
Physics, 1988