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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

 

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