Physicist Leon Lederman, renowned for his subatomic particle work, has died
He famously described the Higgs boson as ‘the God particle’
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PARTICLE PIONEER Physicist Leon Lederman revamped scientists’ knowledge of elementary particles and was the second director of Fermilab, the particle physics laboratory in Batavia, Ill.
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