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Martin Lewis Perl
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Martin Lewis Perl
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| Born | June 24, 1927 |
| Died | September 30, 2014 (aged 87) |
| Nationality | United States |
| Alma mater | NYU-Poly and Columbia University |
| Known for | Tau lepton |
| Awards | Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 |
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| 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 |
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.
Pearl died at Stanford University Hospital on September 30, 2014 from a heart attack at the age of 87.
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