A symposium will be held to celebrate the scientific career of Martin Perl with contributions from those who knew and worked with him throughout his career.
Martin had a fascinating career: It began in New York in chemical engineering, evolved into doctoral research with Rabi on nuclear dipole moments, took a turn in the Mid-West to study hadronic interactions in Glazer’s bubble chambers, and moved on to a new lab on the West Coast to pursue his fascination with the nature of leptons, win a Nobel Prize for discovery of the third generation of fermions, and question the asymptotic freedom of quarks.
Along the way, Martin established a unique style as an experimentalist, mentored a generation of physicists, and reflected his social convictions and concerns as a founder of the APS Forum on Physics and Society.