Martin Lewis Perl was an American chemical engineer and physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 for his discovery of the tau lepton. Wikipedia
Born: June 24, 1927, Manhattan, New York, NY
Died: September 30, 2014 (age 87 years), Palo Alto, CA
Education: Columbia University (1950–1955), United States Merchant Marine Academy, New York University Tandon School of Engineering, and more
Children: Jed Perl