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Martin Lewis Perl
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| Born | June 24, 1927 New York City, New York |
| Died | September 30, 2014 (aged 87) Palo Alto, California |
| 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 (June 24, 1927 – September 30, 2014) was an American physicist. Perl won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 for his discovery of the tau lepton.
Pearl died at Stanford University Hospital on September 30, 2014 from a heart attack at the age of 87.
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