Martin Perl
- Born: June 24, 1927 (New York, New York)
Education
- 1948: BS, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn (Chemical Engineering)
- 1955: PhD, Columbia University (Physics)
Major Positions
- 1948–1950: General Electric Company, Chemical Engineer
- 1955–1963: University of Michigan, Instructor to Associate Professor
- 1963–2004: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), Professor of Physics
- 2004–present: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), Emeritus Professor of Physics
Other Positions
- 1963–1964: Stanford University, Associate Professor of Physics
- 1991–1997: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), Chair, High-Energy Physics Faculty
Selected Awards and Honors
- 1981: National Academy of Sciences, Member
- 1982: Wolf Foundation Prize in Physics
- 1995: Nobel Prize in Physics
Resources on the Web
Published Resources
Martin L. Perl, Reflections on Experimental Science (River Edge, NJ: World Scientific, 1996)
Martin Perl, "The Discovery of the Tau Lepton," in The Rise of the Standard Model: Particle Physics in the 1960s and 1970s, ed. Lillian Hoddeson, Laurie Brown, Michael Riordan, and Max Dresden (New York: Cambridge University Press: 1997), 79-100
