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 died at a nursing home in the Idaho town of Rexburg, said Ellen Carr Lederman, his wife of 37 years. Lederman won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1988 with two other scientists for discovering a subatomic particle called the muon neutrino. The couple moved there full-time in 2011 when Leon Lederman started experiencing memory loss problems that became more severe, his wife said. ADVERTISEMENTHe began making discoveries involving subatomic particles, eventually becoming director of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer October 03, 2018 23:15 UTC