Word: lederman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days," when Professor Lee, a gourmet as well as a physicist, takes a select group to a nearby Chinese restaurant, where he orders special dishes. During a very long Chinese lunch, Dr. Wu's progress in Washington was discussed excitedly. Dr. Lee turned to Associate Professor Leon M. Lederman. who works with Columbia's 385 million-volt cyclotron at Irvington, N.Y. "Why not try the mu mesons?" he asked...
...Columbia cyclotron (called affectionately a "pie factory") is arranged to generate a beam of pi mesons, which turn quickly into mu mesons. Using mu mesons to test parity had often been discussed, but had seemed too difficult. This time Dr. Lederman and Associate Richard L. Garwin had a new idea. Working at top speed with Graduate Research Assistant Marcel Weinrich, they set up an extremely simple experiment. In the path of the mu mesons streaming from the cyclotron, they placed a block of carbon about 6-in. square and 1-in. thick with a coil of wire wound around...
...passed through the coil the mesons turned around and shot their electrons in the other direction. This proved that mesons can be mirror twins (like right-hand and left-hand gloves) and still not behave in the same way. After the conclusive run of the experiment, says Dr. Lederman, "I called Lee on the telephone and told him, 'You're in!' " Parity was dead...
...before. But to everyone's surprise, the Huskies defeated Idaho, Minnesota, Oregon, and even Southern California in the first four weeks of the season. Cherberg was a hero, for against Southern Cal the year before the Huskies had lost, 41 to 0. The backfield star for Washington was Sandy Lederman, a quarterback from Santa Monica, and his teacher was his old coach from high school, backfield coach Jim Sutherland...
...word had leaked out that Cherberg and Sutherland did not always agree on the way to handle quarterback Lederman, and when the season ended, Sutherland publicly attacked Cherberg. To prevent any more embarrassment, Cassill fired Sutherland...