Leon M. Lederman's Birth Card: The King of Clubs

In the record

Leon Max Lederman (July 15, 1922 – October 3, 2018) 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. The birth-card coordinate for July 15 is the King of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1988 Physics prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1988 The Nobel Prize in Physics — for the neutrino beam method and the demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino

The King of Clubs coordinate

Leon M. Lederman's birthday maps to the King of Clubs (The Master Leader). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Nobel Prize and not a verdict on Leon M. Lederman. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You make the intellectual call in the open and you can revise it.

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Leon M. Lederman in the public record

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. An accomplished scientific writer, he became known for his 1993 book The God Particle establishing the popularity of the term for the Higgs boson. Lederman was born in New York City, New York, to Morris and Minna (Rosenberg) Lederman. His parents were Ukrainian-Jewish immigrants from Kyiv and Odesa. Lederman graduated from James Monroe High School in the South Bronx, and received his bachelor's degree from the City College of New York in 1943. Lederman enlisted in the United States Army Signal Corps during World War II, intending to become a physicist after his service.

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Leon Max Lederman (July 15, 1922 – October 3, 2018) 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.

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Also on the record

1. Following his discharge in 1946, he enrolled at Columbia University's graduate school, receiving his Ph.D. in 1951.
2. Lederman became a faculty member at Columbia University, and he was promoted to full professor in 1958 as Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics.
3. In 1960, on leave from Columbia, he spent time at CERN in Geneva as a Ford Foundation Fellow.
4. He took an extended leave of absence from Columbia in 1979 to become director of Fermilab.

Other laureates with this card

• A. Michael Spence — 2001 Economic Sciences
• Albert Camus — 1957 Literature
• Barry C. Barish — 2017 Physics
• Bertram N. Brockhouse — 1994 Physics
• Bruce Merrifield — 1984 Chemistry
• Carl Cori — 1947 Physiology or Medicine
• Cecil Powell — 1950 Physics
• Daniel Bovet — 1957 Physiology or Medicine
• Emil Fischer — 1902 Chemistry
• Eric Kandel — 2000 Physiology or Medicine
• François Jacob — 1965 Physiology or Medicine
• Frederick Sanger — 1958 Chemistry; 1980 Chemistry
• 28 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is Leon M. Lederman's birth card?

The King of Clubs. July 15 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

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