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Martin Lewis Perl
1927Jun, 24

Martin Lewis Perl

Martin Lewis Perl, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2014)
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.

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    German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg writes a letter to fellow physicist Wolfgang Pauli, in which he describes his uncertainty principle for the first time.
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