Nobel-Winning Physicist Martin Perl Passes Away at 87

[dlgoff]

A Nobel Prize-winning physicist from Stanford University who discovered a subatomic particle known as the tau lepton has died at age 87.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/nobel-winning-physicist-martin-perl-dies-age-87-25918793

 

[Evo]

R.I.P.

 

[jtbell]

Aw. He was at Michigan long before my time there as a grad student, but he still had connections there and came back occasionally to give presentations at the weekly departmental colloquia. One of the classes that I took used his textbook on hadron physics.