Leon M. Lederman

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Their Majesties King Carl XVI Gustaf (center) and Queen Silvia of Sweden (third from right) pose with Leon Lederman (second from right) and his family. They are joined by Lars Gyllensten (right), Chairman of the Nobel Foundation and member of the Swedish Academy.

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1 (of 2) Their Majesties King Carl XVI Gustaf (center) and Queen Silvia of Sweden (third from right) pose with Leon Lederman (second from right) and his family. They are joined by Lars Gyllensten (right), Chairman of the Nobel Foundation and member of the Swedish Academy. Photo taken at the Nobel Banquet in the Stockholm City Hall, Sweden, on 10 December 1988.

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2 (of 2) Nobel Laureates in Physics assembled at Brookhaven National Laboratory in August 1996 (left to right): 1957 Laureate Tsung-Dao Lee, 1988 Laureates Leon Lederman, Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger, and 1976 Laureate Samuel Ting.

Photo: Courtesy of Brookhaven National Laboratory

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