Leon Lederman, Nobelist Who Coined ‘God Particle,’ Dies at 96
- Physicist co-discovered universe’s subatomic building blocks
- He served as director of the Fermi National Accelerator Lab
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Leon Lederman, the U.S. physicist who won the Nobel Prize for co-discovering one of the universe’s subatomic building blocks before coining the term “God particle” to describe the mechanism that gives mass to matter, has died. He was 96.
He died Wednesday in Rexburg, Idaho, according to the website of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois, where he had once served as director.