A Nobel Laureate answers questions on the streets of New York City

The world could use more scientists like Leon Lederman , and not just because his Nobel Prize deliver the goods research chair to the discovery of the muon neutrino .

The domain could use more scientist like Lederman because he ’s the kind of person who arrange away time to correct up workshop on a New York City street corner ( he ’s also made appearance in Chicago ) and simply speak about skill . What ’s more , he does it in a lucid , sorcerous and engaging way .

There ’s something to be pronounce for taking the wonder and curiosity of science out of the laboratory and onto the streets — that is , plucking it out of an environs that many in the public reckon to be unprocurable and confusing , and dropping it somewhere that those same people might have a hazard to ask interesting scientific inquiry , and perhaps pick up a nice dose of enlightenment on their forenoon commute . If this form of affair were made common practice , something secern us the world would be a better seat for it .