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Nov.
18, 2002 |
Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist to Deliver Resnick
Lecture at Rensselaer Nov. 20
Leon Lederman, Nobel Prize-winner and internationally
renowned particle physicist, will discuss his unique ideas for
pre-college education when he delivers the seventh annual Robert
Resnick Lecture Wednesday, Nov. 20 at Rensselaer.
The talk, titled "A Vision of 21st Century
Science Education," will take place at 4 p.m. in room 3303
of the Russell Sage Laboratory. Refreshments will precede the
lecture at 3:30 p.m.
Lederman currently serves as director emeritus
of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), resident
scholar for the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, and
Pritzker Professor of Science at the Illinois Institute of Technology.
He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Previously, Lederman served as director of the
Fermilab and held various faculty positions at Columbia University.
Perhaps most notably, he was the director of Nevis Laboratories,
Columbia's center for experimental research in high-energy physics.
He has received numerous awards, including the
National Medal of Science, the Elliot Cresson Medal of the Franklin
Institute, the Wolf Prize in Physics, the Nobel Prize in Physics,
and the Enrico Fermi Prize.
Throughout the course of his career and work in
education, Lederman has developed strong views on pre-college
science curricula in the U.S. During his talk, he will "propose
radical changes that are designed to produce a science-literate
general public, and argue the urgent need for such an educational
revolution."
The lecture series is named in honor of Robert
Resnick, professor emeritus of physics and the Edward P. Hamilton
Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Science Education at Rensselaer.
Resnick, who wrote the premier text series for undergraduate physics,
authored or co-authored seven textbooks still used throughout
the world.
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