Editing Leon M. Lederman (section)

==Academic career==
Lederman became a faculty member at Columbia University, and he was promoted to full professor in 1958 as [[Eugene Higgins]] Professor of Physics.<ref name="autogenerated5" />{{Rp|796}} In 1960, on leave from Columbia, he spent time at [[CERN]] in Geneva as a [[Ford Foundation]] Fellow.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Crease |first=Robert P. |date=2024-04-17 |title=Francis James Macdonald Farley. 13 October 1920—16 July 2018 |journal=Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society |volume=77 |pages=185–199 |language=en |doi=10.1098/rsbm.2023.0037 |issn=0080-4606|doi-access=free }}</ref><ref name=Columbia /> He took an extended leave of absence from Columbia in 1979 to become director of Fermilab.<ref name=ferm>{{cite web|url=https://history.fnal.gov/autobiography.html|title=Fermilab History and Archives – Leon M. Lederman|publisher=FNAL.gov|access-date=October 3, 2018|archive-date=January 7, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170107101630/http://history.fnal.gov/autobiography.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Resigning from Columbia (and retiring from Fermilab) in 1989, he then taught briefly at the [[University of Chicago]].<ref name=UCO>{{cite web|url=https://news.uchicago.edu/story/leon-lederman-nobel-winning-physicist-and-former-fermilab-director-1922-2018|title=Leon Lederman, Nobel-winning physicist and 'visionary' educator, 1922–2018|publisher=[[University of Chicago]]|date=October 3, 2018}}</ref> He then moved to the [[IIT Physics Department|physics department]] of the [[Illinois Institute of Technology]], where he served as the Pritzker Professor of Science.<ref name=UCO/> In 1992, Lederman served as president of the [[American Association for the Advancement of Science]].<ref name=AIP>{{cite web|url=https://history.aip.org/phn/11605003.html|title=Leon M. Lederman|publisher=AIP.org|access-date=October 3, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=AAAS Presidents |url=https://www.aaas.org/leadership/presidents}}</ref>

Lederman, rare for a Nobel Prize winning professor, took it upon himself to teach physics to non-physics majors at The University of Chicago.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1988/lederman/26243-interview-transcript-1988-3/|title=Physics for Poets excerpt in interview about The Nobel Prize in Physics 1988|website=NobelPrize.org|language=en-US|access-date=2020-02-11}}</ref>

Lederman served as president of the board of sponsors of the [[Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists]], and at the time of his death was chair emeritus.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://thebulletin.org/about-us/board-of-sponsors-2/|title=Biography: Leon M. Lederman|publisher=The Bulletin.org|access-date=October 3, 2018}}</ref> He also served on the board of trustees for Science Service, now known as [[Society for Science & the Public]], from 1989 to 1992, and was a member of the [[JASON (advisory group)|JASON defense advisory group]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/16/books/review/16horgan.html|title=Rent-a-Genius|last=Horgan|first=John|newspaper=The New York Times|date=April 16, 2006}}</ref> Lederman was also one of the main proponents of the "[[Physics First]]" movement.<ref name="First" /> Also known as "Right-side Up Science" and "Biology Last," this movement seeks to rearrange the current high school science curriculum so that physics precedes chemistry and biology.<ref name="First">{{Cite journal|last=Popkin|first=Gabriel|date=July 2009|title="Physics First" Battles for Acceptance|url=https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200907/physicsfirst.cfm|journal=APS News|volume=18|issue=7|access-date=3 October 2016}}</ref>

Lederman was an early supporter of [[Science Debate 2008]], an initiative to get the then-candidates for president, [[Barack Obama]] and [[John McCain]], to debate the nation's top science policy challenges.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://thesciencenetwork.org/media/videos/2/Transcript.pdf|title=Leon Lederman Interview|publisher=The Science Network|access-date=October 3, 2018}}</ref> In October 2010, Lederman participated in the [[USA Science and Engineering Festival]]'s Lunch with a Laureate program where middle and high school students engaged in an informal conversation with a Nobel Prize-winning scientist over a brown-bag lunch.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.usasciencefestival.org/2010festival/schoolprograms/lunchwithalaureate|title=Lunch with a Laureate|website=USA Science & Engineering Festival|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101230053110/http://www.usasciencefestival.org/2010festival/schoolprograms/lunchwithalaureate|archive-date=30 December 2010|url-status=dead|access-date=1 October 2016}}</ref> Lederman was also a member of the [[USA Science and Engineering Festival]]'s advisory board.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.usasciencefestival.org/about/advisors|title=USA Science & Engineering Festival–Advisors|date=2016|website=USA Science & Engineering Festival|access-date=1 October 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161002042604/https://www.usasciencefestival.org/about/advisors|archive-date=2 October 2016}}</ref>