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Martin Lewis Perl Biography

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

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The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal with an outside and sometimes hard world.

Pain, Parent, School, Schools, Today, Unfashionable

The experimenter dealing with nature faces an outside and often hard world. Natures' curriculum cannot be changed.

Curriculum, Faces, Hard, World

Nature's curriculum cannot be changed.

Changed, Curriculum

Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and stationary, and my mother working as a secretary and then bookkeeper in a firm of wool merchants.

Bookkeeper, Dealing, Father, Mother, School, Work

It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years.

Children, Depression, Fortune, Good, War

My final remark to young women and men going into experimental science is that they should pay little attention to the speculative physics ideas of my generation. After all, if my generation has any really good speculative ideas, we will be carrying these ideas out ourselves.

Carrying, Ideas, Men, Physics, Science

There were two free public libraries within walking distance of my home; I remember taking six books home from every visit, the limit set by the library.

Book, Distance, Home, Library, Remember, Six

Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A's.

Interesting, Language, Languages, Mathematics, Parent

About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia.

1900, Children, Parent, Parents, Polish, Russia

My parents were determined to move into the middle class.

Class, Determined, Middle, Moving, Parent, Parents

They wanted me to play more sports because they were acutely sensitive to their children being one hundred percent American, and they believed that all Americans played sports and loved sports.

Children, Play, Sports

I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the equipment doesn't work or the measurements look strange.

Answers, Book, Equipment, Looks, Measurements

My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants.

Beings, Higher, Parent, Regarded, School, Teacher

Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business.

Good, Mark, Marks, School, Serious, Serious Business

I was also interested in chemistry, but my parents were not willing to buy me a chemistry set.

Chemistry, Interested, Parent, Willing

Experimental science is a craft and an art, and part of the art is knowing when to end a fruitless experiment. There is a danger of becoming obsessed with a fruitless experiment even if it goes nowhere. It is always a good plan for a speculative experimenter to have two experiments going, or at least one going and one being built.

Art, Experiment, Knowing, Obsessed, Part, Two

I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.

Biographies, Fiction, Mathematics, Science, Travel

A parent being called to the school because their child had misbehaved was as serious as a parent being called to the police station because their child had robbed a bank.

Bank, Children, Parent, Robbed, School

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