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Martin Lewis Perl
USINFO | 2013-11-19 15:50
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Martin Lewis Perl |
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| Born |
June 24, 1927 (age 86) New York City |
| Nationality | United States |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions |
University of Michigan Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) University of Liverpool |
| Alma mater | NYU-Poly and Columbia University |
| Doctoral advisor | I. I. Rabi |
| Doctoral students |
Samuel C. C. Ting Valerie Halyo |
| Known for | tau lepton |
| Notable awards | Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 |
Martin Lewis Perl (born June 24, 1927) is an American physicist, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 for his discovery of the tau lepton.
Life and career
Perl was born in New York City, New York. His parents, Fay (Resenthal), a secretary, and Oscar Perl, a stationery salesman, were Jewish emigrants to the US from the Polish area of Russia.
Perl is a 1948 chemical engineering graduate of Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute (now known as NYU-Poly) in Brooklyn. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1955, where his thesis advisor was I.I. Rabi who won the Nobel Prize in Phyics for 1944 . He spent his career at the University of Michigan and then at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC).
While at Michigan, Perl and Lawrence W. Jones served as co-advisors to Samuel C. C. Ting, who earned the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1976.
He has currently joined University of Liverpool as a visiting professor. He also serves on the board of advisors of Scientists and Engineers for America, an organization focused on promoting sound science in American government.
In 2009, Perl received an honorary doctorate from the University of Belgrade.
