@Science_George@mastodon.world
2026-07-15 14:00 UTC
Today would've been the 104th birthday of @Fermilab's second, and longest-serving, Director - Leon Lederman.
He opined that all of us are born physicists because as children we incessantly ask the right questions about every facet of our world - always asking "WHY?"
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@Science_George@mastodon.world 2026-07-15 14:01
He found the answers to some of those questions himself during his quite impressive career. He discovered the muon neutrino back in 1962 when he was at Brookhaven National Laboratory, but regretted that facility wasn't all he imagined it could be - which inspired an idea. 2/