Martin Lewis Perl

Martin Lewis Perl
Martin Lewis Perl
Born	June 24, 1927 (1927-06-24) (age 84) New York
Nationality	United States
Fields	Physics
Institutions	University of Michigan Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC)
Alma mater	Columbia University
Known for	tau lepton
Notable awards	Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995

Martin Lewis Perl (born June 24, 1927 in New York) is an American physicist, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 for his discovery of the tau lepton. His parents 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 Polytechnic University) in Brooklyn, and received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1955. 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 currently 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.^[1]

See also

• List of Jewish Nobel laureates

References

1. ^ "Promovisani počasni doktori Beogradskog univerziteta - RADIO-TELEVIZIJA VOJVODINE". Rtv.rs. 2009-10-20. http://www.rtv.rs/sr_lat/drustvo/promovisani-pocasni-doktori-beogradskog-univerziteta-_120094.html. Retrieved 2011-02-17. 

External links

• Biography and Bibliographic Resources, from the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, United States Department of Energy
• Nobel autobiography
• U.S. Patent 5943075 Universal fluid droplet ejector (Martin Lewis Perl)
• U.S. Patent 5975682 Two-dimensional fluid droplet arrays generated using a single nozzle (Martin Lewis Perl)

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Name	Perl, Martin Lewis
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Date of birth	June 24, 1927
Place of birth	New York
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