Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Leon Lederman Dies at 96

Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Leon Lederman Dies at 96
Physics Nobel Prize winner Dr. Leon M. Lederman poses for a photo in Batavia, Ill. Reidar Hahn, Fermilab via AP, file
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BOISE, Idaho—Leon Lederman, an experimental physicist who won a Nobel Prize in physics for his work on subatomic particles and coined the phrase “God particle,” died Wednesday at 96.

Lederman directed the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Chicago from 1978 to 1989.