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 .
< indicator name = `` top-icon '' > </indicator> Martin Lewis Perl ( June 24 , 1927 -- September 30 , 2014 ) was an American physicist . Perl won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 for his discovery of the tau lepton .