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From University of Chicago News, Oct. 3, 2018: University of Chicago professors Rocky Kolb and Michael Turner pay tribute to Fermilab’s second director.

From ars technica, Oct. 3, 2018: He was a leading light of particle physics, directing one of the most prestigious physics laboratories in the world. He won the Nobel Prize and irked his physics colleagues by coining the term “the god particle” to describe the Higgs boson. That long, rich life ended the early morning of Oct. 3 when physicist Leon Lederman died of complications from dementia at the age of 96.

From NPR, Oct. 5, 2018: Astronomer Jill Tarter, chair emeritus for SETI Research at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, will present the lecture “A Cosmic Perspective: Searching For Aliens, Finding Ourselves” at Fermilab on Oct. 12.

From Daily Herald, Oct. 4, 2018: Nobel Prize winner. Political advocate for science education who proposed what would become Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. The guy who gave an enduring nickname to the Higgs boson. Leon Lederman was that, and more.

From Live Science, Oct. 4, 2018: Fermilab scientist Don Lincoln offers a personal glimpse of the man who was the lab’s director when Lincoln first arrived at Fermilab. “When his Nobel Prize was announced in 1988, my first thought was, ‘What for?’ That wasn’t because I couldn’t think of an accomplishment of his worth the prize, but rather, I couldn’t decide which one.”

From The Beacon-News, Oct. 3, 2018: About Lederman, Fermilab Director Nigel Lockyer said, ““His impact on particle physics will easily impact us for the next few decades and we will not see another like him in our lifetime.”

From Physics World, Oct. 4, 2018: “[Lederman’s] leadership helped to shape the field of particle physics, designing, building and operating the Tevatron and positioning the laboratory to become a world leader in accelerator and neutrino science,” says current Fermilab director Nigel Lockyer.

From Corriere Adriatico, Oct. 4, 2018: E’ suo il termine “particella di Dio”: addio al fisico statunitense Leon Max Lederman, premio Nobel per la Fisica nel 1988 per i suoi studi sui neutrini, appassionato divulgatore scientifico. E’ morto ieri all’età di 96 anni a Rexburg, città nello stato dell’Idaho.

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.

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.