Nobel Prize-winning physicist Leon Lederman dies at 96

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Leon Lederman, an experimental physicist who won a Nobel Prize in physics for his work on subatomic particles and coined the phrase “God particle,” has died. He was 96.
Ellen Carr Lederman, his wife of 37 years, said her husband died Wednesday at a nursing home in the Idaho town of Rexburg.
Lederman directed the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Chicago from 1978 to 1989. He’s described as a giant in his field who also had a passion for sharin