April
4, 2006
Nobel Laureate in Physics to Visit Oakton
The former director of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and winner of the 1988 Nobel Laureate in Physics, Dr. Leon Lederman, will be the distinguished speaker for a leadership forum at 3 p.m., Thursday, May 4, at Oakton Community College, 1600 E. Golf Road, Des Plaines.
The public is invited to attend this free event. Refreshments will be served.
Lederman is director emeritus of Fermilab in Batavia, as well as past president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. His talk will highlight Oakton's annual CEO, Scholar, and Expert Forum, part of the 2006 American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges Math Competition awards ceremony, sponsored in part by a National Science Foundation grant.
In addition to the Nobel Prize, Lederman has received numerous awards including the National Medal of Science (1965), the Elliot Cresson Medal of the Franklin Institute (1976), and the Wolf Prize in Physics (1982). In 1993, he received the Enrico Fermi Prize from President Clinton. He also has earned more than 60 honorary degrees and National Academy memberships from Italy, England, Finland, Brazil, Russia, and Mexico.
Lederman was instrumental in founding the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA), and is an outspoken advocate for new approaches to secondary science that emphasize a coherent three-year science curriculum beginning with physics.
For more information, contact Tingxiu Wang, professor of mathematics, at 847-635-1752 or tingxiu@oakton.edu.
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