Florence Lederman

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Florence Lederman (Gordon)

Birthdate:
Death: 1990
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Morris Gordon and Ida Gordon
Ex-wife of Leon M. Lederman, Nobel Prize in Physics, 1988
Mother of Private; Private and Private
Sister of Gerschon Gordon; Bertha Gordon and Charlie Gordon

Managed by: Yigal Burstein
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About Florence Lederman

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/03/science/leon-lederman-died-parti...

Dr. Lederman’s first wife, Florence Gordon Lederman, died in 1990. He married Ellen Carr in 1981. In addition to her, he is survived by three children from his first marriage: two daughters, Rena Lederman, a professor of anthropology at Princeton, and Rachel Lederman, a civil rights lawyer; and a son, Jess, a writer and the creator of a website devoted to the works of the Scottish novelist, poet and minister George MacDonald, as well as five grandchildren.

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