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Martin Lewis Perl, (born June 24, 1927, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.—died September 30, 2014, Palo Alto, California), American physicist who received the 1995 Nobel Prize for Physics for discovering a subatomic particle that he named the tau, a massive lepton with a negative charge.

Martin L. Perl The Nobel Prize in Physics 1995 . Born: 24 June 1927, New York, NY, USA . Died: 30 September 2014, Palo Alto, CA, USA . Affiliation at the time of the award: Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA . Prize motivation: “for the discovery of the tau lepton” Prize share: 1/2

Martin L. Perl Biographical . G ood Schools, Books, a Love of Mechanics, and You Must Earn a Living About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia. As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism.

Particle physicist Martin Lewis Perl was recognized worldwide for his discovery of the τ (tau) lepton. For that achievement he received the 1982 Wolf Prize and shared the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics. He was also a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (elected 1981).

The physicist Martin Perl, who has died aged 87, won the Nobel prize in 1995 for his discovery of the tau lepton, a heavy version of the electron. A lifelong liberal, and active opponent of the...

Martin Lewis Perl passed away unexpectedly on 30 September 2014 in Palo Alto, California. A consummate and independent-minded experimentalist, he was world renowned for his discovery of the tau lepton, for which he received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Martin Lewis Perl (June 24, 1927 – September 30, 2014) was an American chemical engineer and physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 for his discovery of the tau lepton.

Martin Lewis Perl. Nobel Prize in Physics 1995 together with Frederick Reines "for the discovery of the tau lepton". From Chemical Engineering to Physics Martin L. Perl was born on June 24, 1927, in New York City to Jewish parents who had emigrated from the former Polish area of Russia around 1900.