Title

Making History: Quarks, Neutrinos, and Virtual Perfection: Interviews with Robert W. Galvin and Leon M. Lederman

Authors

Timothy J. Gilfoyle

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Summer 1996

Abstract

In 1986, Leon Lederman helped establish the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, one of the nation's first residential secondary schools created specifically for gifted students in the sciences. "Kids hate to be different," Lederman recognizes, "and very bright kids know they're different when they're in normal schools, and they react to that differentness in many different ways. But here, they're all the same. They're all . . . academically gifted and work together and collaborate and . . . have excellent teachers. While the building was a hand-me-down from the overbuilding of schools in the early '70s, it works, and it's a very splendid school."

Comments

“Copyright 1996 Chicago Historical Society. All rights reserved. Permission to include in this repository granted by the Chicago Historical Society”

Chicago History Magazine

Recommended Citation

Gilfoyle, Timothy J. "Making History: Quarks, Neutrinos, and Virtual Perfection: Interviews with Robert W. Galvin and Leon M. Lederman." Chicago History Magazine (1996) : 56-72. Print.