Leon Max Lederman was an American experimental physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988, along with Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger, for research on neutrinos. He also received the Wolf Prize in Physics in 1982, along with Martin Lewis Perl, for research on quarks and leptons. Lederman was director emeritus of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, Illinois. He founded the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, in Aurora, Illinois in 1986, where he was resident scholar emeritus from 2012 until his death in 2018. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1988, announced October 19, 1988. Leon M. Lederman, Melvin Schwartz, and Jack Steinberger, “for the neutrino beam method and the demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino”. Leon M. Lederman: born 1922, New York, NY, USA. Melvin Schwartz: born 1932, New York, NY, USA. Jack Steinberger: born 1921, Bad Kissingen, Germany. Wiki link Wiki link Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).