“My parents ... always encouraged my interest in science and in things mechanical. I was a Depression child, and my father told me to 'get a profession' because a professional man could always get a job.”

About Martin Lewis Perl

Physicist • American

Martin Lewis Perl was an American chemical engineer and physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 for his discovery of the tau lepton. His pioneering work at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center was crucial...