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Was Martin Perl working in a university when he discovered tau lepton?

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Yes, Martin Perl was working in a university when he discovered tau lepton. He was a professor at Stanford University when he discovered the tau lepton in 1975. The tau lepton is the third and last of the three charged leptons, and it is heavier than the electron and the muon. Perl was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 for his discovery of the tau lepton.
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