…and Martin Perl Wins for Discovering the Tau Lepton
DEC 01, 1995
The discovery of a third charged lepton, 20 years ago, gave us the first glimpse of a third “generation” of fundamental particles.
DOI: 10.1063/1.2808287
Sharing this year’s physics Nobel Prize with Frederick Reines (see the previous news story) is Martin L. Perl, a professor at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC). The Swedish academy cites Perl “for the discovery of the tau lepton,” in 1975.
© 1995. American Institute of Physics
