Nobel Prize winner died

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Leon Max Lederman, a famous scientist, Nobel Prize winner in Physics, has died on October 3. He was 96. This was reported on the website of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.

The famous scientist died in a nursing home in Rexburg, Idaho. Lederman headed the National Accelerator Laboratory from 1978 to 1989.

The physicist shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in physics with Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger for detecting the muon neutrino.

Lederman dedicated over 60 years of his life to his scientific career, becoming one of the most important global figures in the field of elementary particle physics.