Van de Schoonheid en de Troost — Season 1, Episode 19: After the Death of Sophia Loren?: Leon Lederman

Episode synopsis

Interview with Leon Lederman, American experimental physicist (in the main building of the Fermi Laboratory near Batavia, Chicago area). Lederman talks about his passion for his work, Gauguin, Shakespeare, how he was able to prove his theory that the universe is not symmetrical, Niels Bohr's color spectrum theory, the beginning of quantum theory, Carl Anderson's discovery of the positive electron, his visualization of particles, the fact that no one has ever seen a particle or an atom, the cloud chamber, the theoretical search for the beginning of the universe, his image of the universe, the explosion that created the world, the importance of the disciplines of astrophysics and cosmology within the research into the origin of the universe.

About Van de Schoonheid en de Troost

To his guests – artists, scientists, writers, philosophers and musicians – Wim Kayzer in Of Beauty and Consolation asks the philosophical question: What makes this life worth living?

More episodes from Season 1

• E1Fathers Roses: Wole Soyinka
• E2Homecoming: Roger Scruton
• E3Alone on the mountain: Jane Goodall
• E4The Code of Pasternak: George Steiner
• E5The End of the Thirteenth: Vladimir Ashkenazy
• E6Thor, Newton, Einstein: Steven Weinberg
• E7Guilt: Martha Nussbaum
• E8You Are There and You Are Not: Karel Appel
• E9The Greatest Mystery Is Not the Universe: Edward Witten
• E10Dear Mother: Elizabeth Loftus
• E11When My Father Was Still Big: Rutger Kopland
• E12What's Mary Doing in the Cave: Gary Lynch