81. November 2003 November 2003. leon M. lederman. leon M. lederman, internationally renownedhighenergy physicist, is Director Emeritus of Fermi National http://lars.lycoming.edu/cps04/LedermanBiowp.htm

November 2003 LEON M. LEDERMAN Leon M. Lederman, internationally renowned high-energy physicist, is Director Emeritus of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois and holds an appointment as Pritzker Professor of Science at Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. Dr. Lederman served as Chairman of the State of Illinois Governor's Science Advisory Committee. He is a founder and the inaugural Resident Scholar at the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, a 3-year residential public high school for the gifted. Dr. Lederman was the Director of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory from 1979 to 1989. He is a founder and Chairman Emeritus of the Teachers Academy for Mathematics and Science, active in the professional development of primary school teachers in Chicago. For more than thirty years Dr. Lederman was associated with Columbia University in New York City, having been a student and a faculty member there. Professor Lederman was the Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics at Columbia from 1972–79 and served as Director of Nevis Laboratories in Irvington, Columbia's center for experimental research in high-energy physics, from 1962–79. With colleagues and students from Nevis he led an extensive and wide-ranging series of experiments that provided major advances in the understanding of particles and interactions, thus contributing significantly to what is known as the "standard model."

82. Academy Of Achievement: Leon Lederman, Ph.D. Interview -- Page 6 / 8 leon lederman, Ph.D. Interview continued. You cities. I m now talkingabout it from the point of view of the wellbeing of the nation. http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/led0int-6

Leon Lederman, Ph.D. Interview continued You've devoted a lot of your energy and time in recent years to teaching ,and to teaching teachers. Why is that important to you? Teaching has always been important to me. I grew up at, as I mentioned, Columbia University, which happened to be a university and especially a physics department dedicated to doing a good job in teaching. And so we had that tradition. We were teachers, we taught. Sometimes, if you were very busy in a laboratory, you could get off a semester, but then you'd have to teach twice as much the next semester. And we didn't object to that. We liked that idea, and I was trained with that. And you're always teaching. You're teaching graduate students in combat, and you're learning from them. Teaching is always a teaching/learning process. If you don't learn when you're teaching, then you're not doing it right. video audio So teaching was a big thing for me from the beginning. When I left Columbia to become an administrator of a large laboratory, I started suffering withdrawal symptoms. You know, twitching, and saying, "Gee, I got to teach something."

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Leon Lederman, Ph.D. Interview continued What person do you think most inspired you, growing up? You mentioned your brother. Were there teachers, or any other people? There were a number of them. I don't think I could single one out. One of the guys that influenced most in high school was a young student who sending himself through college in the evenings, and he worked as a laboratory assistant in the high school. He taught us how to blow glass. We got very friendly with him, and I learned a little about chemistry techniques. He was a chemistry major in college and to us he was a real intellectual. He was the first person I met who was really intent on becoming a professional scientist. That's one example. In college, there were a number of role models around. They weren't people I really got to know, I read about them in the papers. I remember reading about a famous physicist, Carl Andersen, who won the Nobel Prize in the '30's for discovering the positive electron. I remember a very romantic scene in the newspaper. He had to drag some apparatus up to the top of a mountain and, using the cosmic rays as a source of particles, he discovered this positive electron. To me that whole idea of going up to the top of the mountain to trap a particle was romantic, exciting, and added to this whole mystique. I was a graduate student at Columbia University, which was one of the greatest departments ever in the '40's and '50's and '60's. There were great professors there, like I.I. Rabi, one of the key founders of modern American physics. Before World War II, most Americans had to go to Europe if they wanted a good education in physics. He went to Europe and came back, founded a school, in effect, on the East Coast, and his students spread out over the universities of America. The same thing happened with J. Robert Oppenheimer on the West Coast. Between the two of them, they really started American physics.

84. The Scientist - Public Science Literacy Must Be Increased To Stem Tide Of Anti-S News. Public Science Literacy Must Be Increased To Stem Tide Of AntiScience Sentiment.By leon M. lederman. Anti-Science Sentiment Author leon M. lederman. http://www.the-scientist.com/yr1995/july/leder_950710.html

The Scientist 9[14]:13, Jul. 10, 1995 News Public Science Literacy Must Be Increased To Stem Tide Of Anti-Science Sentiment By Leon M. Lederman Anti-Science Sentiment Author: LEON M. LEDERMAN Anti-science sentiments have waxed and waned over the past few centuries, shifting with public awareness of science and its conflict with authority. There is little doubt that we are in a waxing phase today (see story on page 1). For the scientific community to react to the new onslaught, it is important to appreciate the diversity of anti-science armies arrayed in the field. Most familiar among them are the religious fundamentalists, some left over from the Galileo affair but now reinvigorated by the political success of clerical states. Fundamentalism the polar opposite of scientific skepticism is by no means unique to Islam: We recognize Jewish fundamentalists in Hebron, the Christian religious right in the United States, and a variety of other sects around the world. The spread of radical fundamentalism is surely a major concern of our times. Today, anti-science in academia bubbles up out of what seems to this experimental scientist as an interesting brew of far-from- settled philosophical angst. But philosophers have been biting at the heels of science for more than 400 years. How many of them understand that the enduring criteria for good science are, always, rationality and skepticism, freedom and revolution, aesthetics and passion, and, oh yes, internationalism? The scientific worldview, however tentative at the edges, will hold.

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86. Sep. 5, 1996-Vol28n02: Nobel Laureate Leon Lederman To Give Rustgi Lecture Sept. present, will be the focus of Miletus to the Supercollider (With a Pause at theBig Bang), a lecture to be given by Nobel Laureate leon M. lederman on Friday http://www.buffalo.edu/reporter/vol28/vol28n02/n4.html

Nobel Laureate Leon Lederman to give Rustgi Lecture Sept. 13 By ELLEN GOLDBAUM News Services Editor Science, from its ancient beginnings to the present, will be the focus of "Miletus to the Supercollider (With a Pause at the Big Bang)," a lecture to be given by Nobel Laureate Leon M. Lederman on Friday, Sept. 13, on UB's North Campus. The lecture, geared toward a lay audience, will be the fourth in the Rustgi Memorial Lecture series. Free and open to the public, it will be held at 4:30 p.m. in Room 201 of the Natural Sciences Complex. The lecture will review the history of the quest to learn how the world works, starting with the origins of science in the ancient Greek town of Miletus and proceeding through the Standard Model of quarks and leptons to the union of particle physics and cosmology. Lederman, now director emeritus of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill., is internationally renowned for four decades of groundbreaking work in particle physics. In 1961, his research group discovered the muon neutrino, which provided the first proof that there was more than one type of neutrino. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics for this work in 1988. In 1977, his group discovered evidence for a new elementary particle, called the bottom quark.

87. Michigan State University Newsroom - Nobel Laureate Lederman To Speak At MSU leon M. lederman, winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize for physics,will speak at Michigan State University Thursday, Feb. 26. http://www.newsroom.msu.edu/site/indexer/1894/content.htm

Releases Entire Site News Releases Special Reports MSU Facts Photos ... Contact Us Saturday, June 05, 2004 Nobel Laureate Lederman to speak at MSU Contact: Raymond Brock, Physics and Astronomy, (517) 355-9200, Ext. 2120, brock@pa.msu.edu ; or Tom Oswald, University Relations, (517) 355-2281, oswald@msu.edu Leon M. Lederman, winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize for physics, will speak at Michigan State University on Thursday, Feb. 26. Lederman’s talk is at 4:10 p.m. in Room 1410 of the MSU Biomedical and Physical Sciences Building. His talk, titled “It’s time for 21 st Century Science Education,” will focus on the state of science education today, a problem he defines as a “prescription for disaster.” Lederman currently serves as the Pritzker Professor of Science at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. He is director emeritus of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, and the former Eugene Higgins Professor at Columbia University. In 1988, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics, due in part to his role in the discovery that there are two kinds of neutrino, electrically neutral subatomic particles. Other honors he has received include the National Medal of Science, the Wolf Prize, the Townsend Harris Medal from City University of New York, and the 1993 Fermi Award. Lederman’s talk is part of the Dr. Henry Blosser and Dr. Milton E. Muelder Endowed Lectureship, in the MSU Department of Physics and Astronomy.

88. Slashdot | Interview: Dr. Leon Lederman Answers This week s interview with Nobel Prizewinning physicist leon M. lederman was conductedverbally, in person, by Slashdot reader Rich Wellner, who transcribed http://slashdot.org/interviews/00/01/14/0948201.shtml

OSDN SourceForge Shop ThinkGeek freshmeat ... Why Subscribe? Sections Main Apache Apple 1 more Askslashdot 9 more Books BSD Developers Games 11 more Interviews Science 2 more YRO 2 more Help FAQ Bugs Stories Old Stories Old Polls Topics Hall of Fame ... Awards Services Broadband Online Books PriceGrabber Product News ... IT Research Interview: Dr. Leon Lederman Answers Posted by Roblimo on Fri Jan 14, '00 12:00 PM from the not-for-physicists-only dept. This week's interview with Nobel Prize-winning physicist Leon M. Lederman was conducted verbally, in person, by Slashdot reader Rich Wellner , who transcribed everything you'll read below. A lot of work! (Thanks, Rich.) The questions he asked were the creme de la creme of those you submitted Monday This interview with Dr. Leon Lederman was conducted on the morning of 1/12/00 in the Art Gallery at Fermilab. Dr. Lederman was quite gracious despite a couple of technical problems with the camcorder used to capture it, and I want to again thank him for taking time out of his schedule to talk with us. -[rw2 AKA Rich Wellner] 1) What's around the corner?

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90. Physics Central Writers Gallery -- L. M. Lederman lm krauss. g. segrè. The Beginning leon M. lederman. The following isan excerpt from The God Particle. Reprinted by permission of the author. http://www.physicscentral.com/writers/writers-01-3.html

Our Writers' Gallery features short pieces about physics by authors who are both renowned physicists and prize-winning writers. Some of these are original contributions and others are excerpts from longer works. Many are linked to more information about the authors and their works. h.c. von baeyer c.m. will l.m. krauss a. zee ... l.m. krauss Leon M. Lederman The following is an excerpt from The God Particle . Reprinted by permission of the author. Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion. -Democritus of Abdera Wait a minute. Before the boulder falls, I should explain that I really don't know what I'm talking about. A story logically begins at the beginning. But this story is about the universe, and unfortunately there are no data for the Very Beginning. None, zero. We don't know anything about the universe until it reaches the mature age of a billionth of a trillionth of a second—that is, some very short time after creation in the Big Bang. When you read or hear anything about the birth of the universe, someone is making it up. We are in the realm of philosophy. Only God knows what happened at the Very Beginning (and so far She hasn't let on). Now, where were we? Oh yes

91. New York City In The Period Of 1922 To 1979 Provided The Streets Honorary D.Sc s have been awarded to leon M. lederman by City College of New York,University of Chicago, Illinois Institute of Technology, Northern Illinois http://www.conare.ac.cr/cenat/paginas/leon lederman.htm

New York City in the period of 1922 to 1979 provided the streets, schools, entertainment, culture and ethnic diversity for many future scientists. I was born in New York on July 15, 1922 of immigrant parents. My father, Morris, operated a hand laundry and venerated learning. Brother Paul, six years older, was a tinkerer of unusual skill. I started my schooling in 1927 at PS 92 on Broadway and 95th Street and received my Ph.D. in 1951 about one mile north, at Columbia University. In between there were neighborhood junior and Senior high schools and the City College of New York. There I majored in chemistry but fell under the influence of such future physicists as Isaac Halpern and my high school friend, Martin J. Klein. I graduated in 1943 and proceeded promptly to spend three years in the U.S. Army where I rose to the rank of 2nd Lieutenant in the Signal Corps. In September of 1946 I entered the Graduate School of Physics at Columbia, chaired by I.I. Rabi. The Columbia Physics Department was constructing a 385 MeV Synchrocyclotron at their NEVIS Laboratory, located in Irvington-on-the-Hudson, New York. Construction was aided by the Offce of Naval Research and "NEVIS" eventually proved to be an extremely productive laboratory, as judged by physics results and students produced.

92. Annual Conferences School Science and Mathematics Association Biography for leon M.lederman. leon M. lederman, internationally known specialist in http://www.ssma.org/lederman.html

School Science and Mathematics Association Biography for Leon M. Lederman Leon M. Lederman, internationally known specialist in high energy physics, is the director emeritus of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois, and was the Eugene Higgins Professor at Columbia University. He has been associated with Columbia as a student and faculty member for more than thirty years, and he was director of Nevis Laboratories in Irvington, which was the Columbia physics department center for experimental research in high-energy physics from 1961 until 1979. With colleagues and students from Nevis he has led an intensive and wide-ranging series of experiments which have provided major advances in the understanding of weak interactions. His research was based on accelerators at Nevis, Brookhaven, CERN, Berkeley, Rutherford, Cornell and Fermilab. His publication list runs to 200 papers. Lederman was the director of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory from 1979 until 1989. Lederman is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and has received numerous awards including the National Medal of Science (1965), the Elliot Cresson Medal of the Franklin Institute (1976), the Wolf Prize in Physics (1982), and the Nobel Prize in Physics (1988). In 1993 he was awarded the Enrico Fermi Prize by President Clinton. He has served as founding member of the High-Energy Physics Advisory Panel and the International Committee for Future Accelerators.

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94. ANNALS ONLINE -- Abstracts: Lederman 935 (1): 261 Address for correspondence leon M. lederman, Ph.D., President, President, IllinoisMath and Sciences Academy, 1500 W. Sullivan Road, Aurora IL 60506. http://www.annalsnyas.org/cgi/content/abstract/935/1/261

HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ... PDF Version of this Article Similar articles found in: ANNALS ONLINE PubMed PubMed Citation Search PubMed for articles by: Lederman, L. M. Download to Citation Manager Collections under which this article appears: Science Education Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences New York Academy of Sciences K-12 Science Education as the Road to Consilient Curricula Leon M. Lederman Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, Aurora, Illinois 60506, USA Address for correspondence: Leon M. Lederman, Ph.D., President, President, Illinois Math and Sciences Academy, 1500 W. Sullivan Road, Aurora IL 60506. Voice: 630-907-5911; Fax: 630-907-5913. lederman@fnal.gov We begin with the absurdity of ninth-grade biology to bewail the fate of high school science education as one component of a wholly inadequate K-12 education. Our proposal for a coherent physics-chemistry-biology core curriculum for all high school students leads naturally to seeking the connections between the sciences, the sciences and mathematics, and indeed to the high school graduate.

95. Reflections - Lederman Question 1 My major interest is in achieving a science literatecitizenry. Future scientists and engineers are not my current http://www.woodrow.org/CommissionOnTheSeniorYear/Reflections/reflections_-_leder

Question #1: I should also comment on the poor preparation that high school graduates have for college work, especially in science and engineering. Minority students who too often attend inner city schools (we get them at ITT,) are desperately motivated, but are fatally deficient in reading and mathematics. I tried (1994!) to interest several Cabinet officers in reviving the GI Bill for successful high school graduates. Two years of military discipline, fresh air, exercise, medical care and very strong reading and math remediation could make these students college tar; the US Treasury would surely make a nice profit on its investment in tuition and subsistence for these students. Question #2: For the under-prepared who hope to be college bound, there is no senior slump – there is the need for strong remediation in fundamentals. For the better prepared, it may be that the realities of high school teacher quality dictates replacing the last year of high school with a pre-college year, in the college of choice or in a local community college. So, the issue is: Can we blend the senior year of high school with the freshman year of college to avoid the ""senior slump" and "freshman malaise"? Question #3: The 21st century is truly a new millennium. As citizens and as a work-force, the demands imposed upon our schools are unprecedented. There is no quick fix. To achieve an adequate corps of teachers, we must raise the social (as well as economic) status of teachers; a long-term program not yet begun. Industry is "the least satisfied customer of the public school system," and the important functions of government in transportation, in communication, in regulation of drugs and medicines, in the public policy that must oversee research and technological revolution - all point to the crucial role of education which must be available to all citizens at the high level indicated by national standards.

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