American Physicist Sold Nobel to Pay for End-of-Life Care
By Sputnik
October 09, 2018 "Information
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In a damning indictment of health care in
the US, the family of Nobel prize-winning
physicist Leon Lederman sold his award to
cover end-of-life medical expenses.
Lederman, the physicist credited with
inventing the term 'god particle,' died last
week at a nursing home in Idaho.
A former head of the prestigious Fermi
National Accelerator Lab and a 1988 winner
of the Nobel Prize in physics, Lederman had
suffered acute dementia in the last years of
his life, resulting in round-the-clock care
and its heavy expenditure — a financial
burden the revered scientist's family were
unprepared for.
His wife, Ellen Lederman, noted that the
move was necessary to keep her husband at
peace as his health declined.
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"I wish it
could be different," she stated, "but he's
happy. He likes where he lives with cats and
dogs and horses. He doesn't have any
problems with anxiety, and that makes me
glad that he's so content," cited by
Gizmodo.com.
A recipient of multiple awards throughout
his life, Lederman, one of three to receive
the 1988 physics Nobel award "for the
neutrino beam method and the demonstration
of the doublet structure of the leptons
through the discovery of the muon neutrino,"
is arguably more famous for his invention
and adoption of the term ‘god particle' to
describe the subatomic Higgs boson particle.
An avowed atheist, Lederman was accused of
using sensationalism by coining a scientific
explanation with theological terms, although
he has long been acknowledged as having an
uncanny ability to explain the spectacularly
complex subtleties of subatomic physics with
the straightforward delivery of a layman.
The US, as the only advanced wealthy nation
to not guarantee health care to every
citizen, is facing a financial and social
crisis at the hands of its for-profit
healthcare system.
Lederman's Nobel award was purchased by an
anonymous online buyer for a reported
$765,000
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