For discovering the tau lepton, Martin L Perl was honored with the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics. The unexpectedly heavy charged particle established a third generation of leptons.
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Martin L Perl
Nobel Prize history for Martin L Perl based on the award records stored in the World History Database.
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