Martin Lewis Perl

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Martin L. Perl

Martin Lewis Perl (born June 24, 1927 in New York City , New York , † September 30, 2014 in Palo Alto , California ) was an American physicist . For his discovery of the rope , he and Frederick Reines received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics .

Career

Perl was the son of Jewish immigrants from Poland, which was then part of Russia, graduated from high school in Brooklyn in 1942 and studied chemical engineering at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute , where he graduated in 1948 (summa cum laude) . During the Second World War he was in the merchant navy and then worked from 1948 to 1950 as an engineer at General Electric in Schenectady . There he was mainly involved in the production of electron tubes and decided to add a degree in physics. In 1955 he received his doctorate from Columbia University under Isidor Isaac Rabi with an experimental work in atomic physics (measurement of the quadrupole moment of the sodium nucleus). On the advice Rabis he switched to physics and went in 1955 as an instructor at the University of Michigan , where he was first in the bubble chamber group of Donald Glaser worked. He became an Associate Professor at the University of Michigan before joining the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) as a professor in 1963 , where he worked for most of his career. From 2004 he was Professor Emeritus there.

Samuel CC Ting is one of his PhD students .

In 1981 he became a member of the National Academy of Sciences before being elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1997. In 1982 he received the Wolf Prize in Physics.

Fonts

  • Reflections on Experimental Science, World Scientific 1996
  • The discovery of the tau lepton, in Lillian Hoddeson, Laurie Brown , Michael Riordan (Eds.): The Rise of the Standard Model, Cambridge University Press 1997, pp. 79-100

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Stanford's Martin L. Perl, winner of 1995 Nobel Prize for discovery of tau lepton, dead at 87