| Martin L. Perl  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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