Martin Lewis Perl

Martin Lewis Perl (June 24, 1927 – September 30, 2014) was an American physicist of Jewish descent. Perl won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 for his discovery of the tau lepton.^[1]

Martin Lewis Perl
Martin Lewis Perl
Born	(1927-06-24)June 24, 1927 New York City, New York
Died	September 30, 2014(2014-09-30) (aged 87) Palo Alto, California
Nationality	United States
Alma mater	NYU-Poly and Columbia University
Known for	Tau lepton
Awards	Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995
Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	University of Michigan Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) University of Liverpool
Doctoral advisor	I. I. Rabi
Doctoral students	Samuel C. C. Ting, Valerie Halyo

Pearl died at Stanford University Hospital on September 30, 2014 from a heart attack at the age of 87.^[2]