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Martin Lewis Perl

1927 - 2014

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Martin Lewis Perl (June 24, 1927 – September 30, 2014) was an American chemical engineer and physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 for his discovery of the tau lepton. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Martin Lewis Perl is the 178th most popular physicist, the 643rd most popular biography from United States (up from 658th in 2019) and the 28th most popular American Physicist.

Martin Lewis Perl is most famous for winning the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Martin Lewis Perl ranks 178 out of 851. Before him are Edmond Becquerel, Martinus J. G. Veltman, Leon Cooper, James Jeans, Julius von Mayer, and Herbert Kroemer. After him are Richard E. Taylor, Arthur Leonard Schawlow, Burton Richter, Isamu Akasaki, Shin'ichirō Tomonaga, and Georg Christoph Lichtenberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Martin Lewis Perl ranks 26. Before him are Antônio Carlos Jobim, Angelo Sodano, László Kubala, Princess Joséphine Charlotte of Belgium, Maurice Béjart, and Manfred Eigen. After him are Albert Uderzo, George Andrew Olah, John McCarthy, Rosalynn Carter, Janet Leigh, and Robert Hossein. Among people deceased in 2014, Martin Lewis Perl ranks 22. Before him are Shirley Temple, Alexander Grothendieck, Lauren Bacall, Paco de Lucía, Jacques Le Goff, and Robert A. Dahl. After him are Virna Lisi, Queen Fabiola of Belgium, Alain Resnais, Christopher Hogwood, Maya Angelou, and Richard Attenborough.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Martin Lewis Perl ranks 643 out of 20,380. Before him are Donald Trump Jr. (1977), Kurt Russell (1951), Margaret Hamilton (1902), Hiram Maxim (1840), Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (1947), and Stephen Lang (1952). After him are Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. (1915), Dave Bautista (1969), Tiny Tim (1932), Goldie Hawn (1945), King C. Gillette (1855), and Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Martin Lewis Perl ranks 28. Before him are Robert Coleman Richardson (1937), Clifford Shull (1915), John Bardeen (1908), Joseph Henry (1797), George E. Smith (1930), and Leon Cooper (1930). After him are Arthur Leonard Schawlow (1921), Burton Richter (1931), Jerome Isaac Friedman (1930), Douglas Osheroff (1945), George Smoot (1945), and Val Logsdon Fitch (1923).

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