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February 26, 1994

Particle physicist Leon Lederman spoke on “The Innerspace/Outerspace Connection: History and Progress Report.” The discoverer, in 1968, of the muon neutrino and of the bottom quark, in 1977, Lederman was co-recipient—with his colleagues Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger— of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1978, “for the neutrino beam method and the demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino.” John W. Wright, ed., The New York Times Almanac

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