Editing Leon M. Lederman (section)

==Early life and education==
Lederman was born in New York City, New York, to Morris and Minna (Rosenberg) Lederman.<ref name="HoddesonKolb2009">{{cite book|author1=Lillian Hoddeson|author1-link=Lillian Hoddeson|author2=Adrienne W. Kolb|author2-link=Adrienne Kolb|author3=Catherine Westfall|author3-link=Catherine Westfall|title=Fermilab: Physics, the Frontier, and Megascience|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UXUbesKLjBoC&pg=PA229|date=1 August 2009|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=978-0-226-34625-0|pages=229}}</ref> His parents were [[Ukrainian-Jewish]] immigrants from [[Kyiv]] and [[Odesa]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mediatheque.lindau-nobel.org/research-profile/laureate-lederman|title=Research Profile - Leon Max Lederman|website=www.mediatheque.lindau-nobel.org|date=3 August 2022 }}</ref> Lederman graduated from [[James Monroe High School (New York City)|James Monroe High School]] in the [[South Bronx]],<ref name="Nobelprize">{{Cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1988/lederman-bio.html|title=Leon M. Lederman – Biographical|last=Lederman|first=Leon|date=1991|website=Nobelprize.org|access-date=2 October 2016}}</ref> and received his [[bachelor's degree]] from the [[City College of New York]] in 1943.<ref name=Army/>

Lederman enlisted in the [[United States Army]]<ref name=Army>{{cite web|title= Leon Lederman Ph.D. Biography and Interview |website=www.achievement.org|publisher=[[American Academy of Achievement]]|url=    https://achievement.org/achiever/leon-lederman-ph-d/}}</ref> during [[World War II]], intending to become a physicist after his service.<ref name="autogenerated5">{{Cite book|title=The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, What is the Question|url=https://archive.org/details/godparticleifthe00lede|url-access=registration|last1=Lederman|first1=Leon|last2=Teresi|first2=Dick|publisher=Houghton Mifflin|year=1993|isbn=9780618711680}}</ref>{{Rp|17}} Following his discharge in 1946, he enrolled at [[Columbia University]]'s graduate school, receiving his [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] in 1951.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://physics.columbia.edu/about-us/short-history-columbia-physics|title=A Short History of Columbia Physics|year=2016|website=Department of Physics|publisher=Columbia University in the City of New York|access-date=2 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161104092309/http://physics.columbia.edu/about-us/short-history-columbia-physics|archive-date=4 November 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>