Portraits of Great American Scientists - Hardcover

by Lederman (Author), Scheppler (Author)

Author Biography

Leon M. Lederman, Nobel Laureate (Batavia, IL) is the author of "Beyond the God Particle," "Quantum Physics for Poets, " and "Symmetry and the Beautiful Universe "(coauthored with Christopher T. Hill), as well as "The God Particle" (with Dick Teresi). He has served as the editor of "Portraits of Great American Scientists" and a contributor to "Science Literacy for the Twenty-First Century." He is formerly the Resident Scholar at the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy and Pritzker Professor of Science at the Illinois Institute of Technology, and he is director emeritus of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.
Judith A. Scheppler, Ph.D. (Chicago, IL), is the Coordinator of Student Inquiry and Director of the Grainger Center for Imagination and Inquiry at the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy. She is also the coauthor of "Biotechnology Explorations: Applying the Fundamentals."