Nobel Season, 2010

It's Nobel season and two of SLAC's Nobelists mark significant anniversaries this year.

35th: Discovery of the tau lepton by Martin Perl and collaborators at SLAC's SPEAR

20th: Nobel Prize awarded to SLAC's Richard Taylor, Jerome Friedman (MIT), and Henry Kendall (MIT) for investigations of deep inelastic scattering at SLAC's End Station A

15th: Nobel Prize awarded to Martin Perl for discovery of the tau lepton (see above)

For more information see our Nobel page.