From Bloomberg News, Oct. 3, 2018: In 1989, he retired as director of the Fermilab, where he had headed a team that discovered the bottom quark, one of the six types of the elementary quark particle, in 1977.
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From WTTW’s Chicago Tonight, Oct. 3, 2018: This 6-minute segment covers Lederman’s expansive career, including his 1988 Nobel Prize for the discovery of the muon neutrino, one of the building blocks of matter.
From Science News, Oct. 3, 2018: His work revealed the existence of multiple new elementary particles — with names like the muon neutrino and the bottom quark — showing that the realm of the infinitesimal was more complex than previously thought.
A specialized measuring machine at SLAC is helping scientists build precise detectors for the ATLAS experiment.
From The New York Times, Oct. 3, 2018: Leon Lederman, whose ingenious experiments with particle accelerators deepened science’s understanding of the subatomic world, died early Wednesday in Rexburg, Idaho. He was 96.
From Wired UK, Oct. 1, 2018: The winning photos in the 2018 Global Physics Photowalk take a sideways look at particle detectors and operating mines.
From Le Scienze, Sept. 21, 2018: Successo del prototipo dell’esperimento DUNE, allestito presso il centro di ricerca ginevrino: sono i primi indizi del passaggio di neutrini nei rivelatori costituiti da enormi serbatoi di argon liquido. È l’inizio di un progetto che porterà alla realizzazione di un apparato sperimentale simile ma 20 volte più grande al FermiLab di Chicago.
From Kane County Chronicle, Sept. 23, 2018: A winning photograph by Ken Wickham of St. Charles taken at Fermilab in Batavia advanced in an international competition.
From The New York Times, Oct. 2, 2018: The Nobel committee recognized the scientists for their work in using light to make miniature tools.
From Udaipur Kiran, Sept. 18, 2018: More than 1,000 scientists and engineers from 32 countries spanning five continents — Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America — are working on the development, design and construction of the DUNE detectors.