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October 5, 2018

Leon Lederman, 1988 Nobel Physics Laureate, Dies at 96
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Nobel Prize-winning physicist Leon Lederman died Wednesday in an Idaho
nursing home at the age of 96. In 1988, Lederman won the Nobel Physics
Prize for his pioneering work on subatomic particles. In recent years,
he began suffering from dementia; in 2015, Lederman sold his Nobel Prize
medal for $765,000 in order to pay for his mounting medical and nursing
home costs.


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