AKA Martin Lewis Perl

Born: 24-Jun-1927
Birthplace: New York City

Gender: Male
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Physicist

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Discovered the Tau Lepton

Military service: US Merchant Marine; US Army (drafted after WWII)

Father: Oscar Perl (salesman)
Mother: Fay Resenthal (secretary)
Sister: Lila Perl

    High School: James Madison High School, Brooklyn, NY (1942)
    University: BS Chemical Engineering, Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute (1948)
    University: PhD Nuclear Physics, Columbia University (1955)
    Professor: University of Michigan (1955-63)
    Professor: Stanford University (1963-)

    Nobel Prize for Physics 1995 (with Frederick Reines)
    Wolf Prize in Physics 1982 (with Leon M. Lederman)
    General Electric Chemical Engineer (1948-50)
    American Physical Society
    Federation of American Scientists Board of Sponsors
    National Academy of Sciences
    Scientists and Engineers for America
    Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society

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