The eminent physicist, the father of the phrase

Renowned physicist Leon Lederman, who won the Nobel Prize for his study of subatomic particles, the father of the phrase "God's seed", died at the age of 96 on October 3, 2018.

Over the past 7 years, he has struggled with illness and his health has been waning. Even in 2015, he had to auction his Nobel Prize to get $ 750,000 to pay the hospital fee.

Leon Lederman was born in 1922, earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry from New York City University before joining the service, fighting in World War II. After the war, he earned a Ph.D. in particle physics at Columbia University, where he became an irreplaceable researcher.

Physicist Leon Lederman.

He became director of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, part of the University of Chicago from 1978 to 1989. When he was at Columbia University, he and his colleagues discovered neutrinos called muons, one subatomic particles and the second neutrino discovered by science. Their research demonstrates that electrons are not the only neutrino.

In 1988, Mr. Lederman and his two colleagues, Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger, were honored to receive the Nobel Prize for their dedication to physics. It was also about the time that Lederman used the phrase "God's particle" to refer to the Higgs - one of the 17 fundamental particles of particle physics. Later, the large particle accelerator at CERN proved the existence of "God's particle".

The phrase Mr. Lederman used to highlight the importance of grain, once it was discovered. Mr. Lederman is not the one who argues for the existence of the Higgs, which is the hypothesis of Peter Higgs and his colleagues in 1964. In 2004, Peter Higgs and François Englert won the Nobel Prize in Physics for their theory of the Higgs.

In 2011, Mr. Lederman and his wife moved to Idaho because of the Nobel prize money, but at the same time, Lederman's health deteriorated. In 2015, he was diagnosed with schizophrenia, the old couple had to sell the Nobel Prize for medical treatment.

Sickness caused him to auction his Nobel Prize for $ 750,000 to pay the hospital fee.

"The situation is very bad , " Leon Lederman's wife, Ellen, sadly said in an interview in 2015. "It is going to be difficult, I wish things could be different. But he still He is still happy with dogs, cats and horses in the house, I feel very fortunate that he is always content with his life. "

The former Fermilab director, John Peoples, who worked with Mr. Lederman for more than 40 years, said the following words: "Leon gave the US a world-class physicist a point to break out, one. "The unique factory, a large energy accelerator, and his successors continue to study them. Leon is the one who created them. He is the great man who has put everything into orbit."

May the eminent physicist rest.