Editing Leon M. Lederman (section)

== Honors and awards ==
* Election to the [[National Academy of Sciences]], 1965.<ref name=ferma>{{cite web|url=https://history.fnal.gov/career_awards.html|title=Leon M. Lederman Career, Discoveries and Awards|publisher=Fermilab.gov|access-date=October 3, 2018|archive-date=January 18, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170118042406/http://history.fnal.gov/career_awards.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[National Medal of Science]], 1965.<ref name=ferma/>
* Election to the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]], 1970.<ref name=more>{{cite web|url=https://history.fnal.gov/honorary.html|title=Leon M. Lederman Honorary Degrees and Awards|publisher=Fermlab.gov|access-date=October 3, 2018|archive-date=November 10, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161110111310/http://history.fnal.gov/honorary.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* Elliott Cresson Prize of the Franklin Institute, 1976.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=http://www.fi.edu/winners/1976/lederman_leon.faw?winner_id=3329|title=Franklin Laureate database|year=2012|website=The Franklin Institute Awards|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121025103150/http://www.fi.edu/winners/1976/lederman_leon.faw?winner_id=3329|archive-date=25 October 2012|url-status=dead|access-date=2 October 2016}}</ref>
* [[Wolf Prize in Physics]], 1982.<ref name=ferma/>
* Golden Plate Award of the [[Academy of Achievement|American Academy of Achievement]], 1982.<ref>{{cite web|title= Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement |website=www.achievement.org|publisher=[[American Academy of Achievement]]|url=  https://achievement.org/our-history/golden-plate-awards/#science-exploration}}</ref>
* [[Nobel Prize in Physics]], 1988.<ref name=ferma/>
* Election to the [[American Philosophical Society]], 1989.<ref name=more/>
* [[Enrico Fermi Award]] of the [[United States Department of Energy]], 1992.<ref name=ferma/>
* Appointment as a Tetelman Fellow at [[Jonathan Edwards College]], 1994.<ref name=more/>
* Doctor of Humane Letters, [[DePaul University]], 1995.<ref name=more/>
* [[Ordem Nacional do Merito Cientifico]] ([[Brazil]]), 1995.<ref name=more/>
* ''In Praise of Reason'' from the [[Committee for Skeptical Inquiry]] (CSICOP), 1996.<ref name="World Congress 1996">{{cite web|url=http://www.csicop.org/sb/show/world_skeptics_congress_draws_over_1200_participants|title=World Skeptics Congress Draws Over 1200 Participants|author-link=Tom Flynn (author)|website=Skeptical Inquirer|publisher=CSICOP|last1=Flynn|first1=Tom|access-date=19 August 2016|date=September 1996}}</ref>
* Medallion, Division of Particles and Fields, Mexican Physical Society, 1999.<ref name=more/>
* [[AAAS Philip Hauge Abelson Prize]], 2000
* Vannevar Bush Prize, 2012.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://history.fnal.gov/honorary.html|title=Fermilab History and Archives–Leon M. Lederman Honorary Degrees and Awards|date=2012|website=history.fnal.gov|publisher=Fermilab|access-date=October 12, 2016|archive-date=November 10, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161110111310/http://history.fnal.gov/honorary.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* Asteroid [[85185 Lederman]], discovered by [[Eric Walter Elst]] at [[La Silla Observatory]] in 1991, was named in his honor.<ref name="jpldata" /> The official {{MoMP|85185|naming citation}} was published by the [[Minor Planet Center]] on January 27, 2013 ({{small|[[Minor Planet Circulars|M.P.C.]] 82401}}).<ref name="MPC-Circulars-Archive" />