Leon Lederman
Founder and Resident Scholar, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, Director Emeritus, Fermilab, and Pritzker Professor of Science, Illinois Institute of Technology

Lecture I:  A Scientist Addresses Science Education
Lecture II:  A Sense of Wonder
Wednesday, October 14, 2009 – 4:10 p.m.
Thursday, October 15, 2009 – 4:10 p.m.
International House Auditorium, 2299 Piedmont Avenue, Berkeley

In 1988, Dr. Leon Lederman was co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics (along with Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger) for their discovery of the muon neutrino, proving that there are at least two families of neutrinos.  

Description of Lecture I:

The crisis in science education (pre-K-14) has been widely recognized at least since the report "A Nation at Risk" was published in 1983. This report accompanies a huge number of later reports.  All sit happily, side by side, read and appreciated but never implemented, in secret storage places somewhere in Washington DC.  There is good reason for new optimism, but the persistent failure to implement the well understood cures must be understood before we can capitalize on the awesome wisdom now accumulating in Washington.

Description of Lecture II:

This lecture will be a personal story of the interesting experiences Dr. Lederman had after being discharged from the U.S. Army after WWII.  From a returning troop ship docking at the Battery in New York, he hastened uptown to register as a graduate student in physics at Columbia University. His story sketches major events from there to a party in Stockholm (the Nobel Prize celebration).

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