“For myself and for my group, the period from 1974 to 1977 was filled with the excitement of discovery, with the gradual confirmation that we had found a new particle, a new lepton.”

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...