Nobel laureate who sold medal to pay medical bills dies at 96
American scientist Leon Lederman, who won the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics and later auctioned his medal for $765,000 to pay medical bills, has died aged 96 on Wednesday. Lederman worked at CERN while researching on the Higgs boson and coined "The God Particle" for the subatomic particle, which gives matter its mass, in his book of the same name.