Dr. Lederman is Pritzker Professor of Physics at the Illinois Institute of Technology . He is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences and has received numerous awards besides the Nobel, including the National Medal of Science (1965), the Elliot Cresson Medal of the Franklin Institute (1976), and the Wolf Prize in Physics (1982). He is a past chairman and president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 1993 he was awarded the Enrico Fermi Prize by President Clinton. He has served as founding member of the High-Energy Physics Advisory Panel and the International Committee for Future Accelerators.

The 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Lederman and his old partners, Schwartz and Steinberger for "transforming the ghostly neutrino into an active tool of research." In 1989, Dr. Lederman stepped down as Director of Fermilab and assumed the title director emeritus. He then served as Frank L. Sulzberger Professor of Physics at the University of Chicago, and pursued his increasing interset in the problems of science education in American schools. He founded the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, the first state-wide residence public school for gifted children, and the Teacher's Academy of Mathematics and Science in Chicago.

In 1994, researchers at Fermilab achieved an old goal of Dr. Lederman's, detecting the top quark, the bottom quark's elusive companion, which had escaped observation for the previous 17 years.

Leon Lederman's publication list runs to 200 papers. He is co-author of the books, The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question? (1989, written with Dick Teresi) and From Quarks to the Cosmos: Tools of Discovery (1995, co-author David N. Schramm). In these works, Lederman uses humor, metaphor, and storytelling to delve into the mysteries of matter, discussing particle accelerators and the yet-to-be-discovered "God particle."

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