IUPUI Research Day

Dr. Leon Lederman

Nobel Prize Physics 1988
Presentation Title:  “Knowing How Science Works for Scientists and Citizens”

IUPUI Research Day
Friday, April 24, 2009
1 pm
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Lecture Hall Room 101
325 University Blvd.
Indianapolis, IN 46202

For more information contact the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research at 274-1020 or email ovcr@iupui.edu.

Leon M. Lederman, internationally renowned high-energy physicist, is Director Emeritus of Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois and holds an appointment as Pritzker Professor of Science at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. He is Resident Scholar and a founder of the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy in Aurora, Illinois. He has served as President and Chairman of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, is a member of the National Academy of Science, and has received numerous awards, including the National Medal of Science (1965), the Elliot Cresson Medal of the Franklin Institute (1976), the Wolf Prize in Physics (1982), the Nobel Prize in Physics (1988), the Enrico Fermi Prize given by President Clinton in 1993, the Abelson Prize of the AAAS (2000), the AIP Compton Medal for leadership in physics (2005), and the William Benton Medal for Distinguished Public Service (2008).

Lederman has also worked tirelessly to improve science education.  He is a founder and the inaugural Resident Scholar at the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, a 3-year residential public high school for the gifted. He recently served as co-chair of the NSB Commission on 21st Century Education in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM).