Martin Perl, 87, Is Dead; Nobel-Winning Physicist

Friday, October 3, 2014 - 21:30 in Astronomy & Space

Dr. Perl was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1995 for discovering the tau lepton, a subatomic particle that is one of the building blocks of the universe.

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