Martin Lewis Perl
Martin Lewis Perl
Martin Lewis Perlwas an American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 for his discovery of the tau lepton...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhysicist
Date of Birth24 June 1927
CountryUnited States of America
curriculum changed
Nature's curriculum cannot be changed.
children school parent
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.
allied brought class depression four kept middle printing
However, Allied Printing brought the four of us into the middle class and kept us in the middle class thru the Depression of the 1930's.
along love parents reading soon
Along with my parents insistence, soon internalized, that I do very well in school, went my love of reading and my love of mechanics.
good
For example, I am not a good craftsman.
art two knowing
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.
men ideas attention
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.
school parent world
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.
book answers measurement
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.
school serious-business mark
Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business.