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Martin L. Perl
Martin L. Perl (1917 - ) received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1995 for pioneering experimental contributions to lepton physics in particular the discovery of the tau lepton.
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Tau Lepton
The tau is the most massive of the leptons.
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Lepton
Leptons and quarks are the basic building blocks of matter, i.e., they are seen as the "elementary particles".
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Muon
The muon is a lepton which decays to form an electron or positron.
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Neutrino
The electron neutrino (a lepton) was first postulated in 1930 by Fermi to explain why the electrons in beta decay were not emitted with the full reaction energy of the nuclear transition.
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Hyperphysics - Particle Interactions and Conservation Laws
Conservation laws in quark interactions involving baryon number, lepton number, entropy, parity, isopin, strangeness with good links to other relevant areas of the site.
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