William Perl
American scientist and spy
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William Perl's Degrees
- PhD Physics University of California, Berkeley
- Masters Physics University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors Physics City College of New York
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, William Perl , whose original name was William Mutterperl, was an American physicist and Soviet spy. Background While a student at the City College of New York, Perl joined the Steinmetz Club, the campus branch of the Young Communist League, where he met and befriended future Soviet spies Julius Rosenberg, Morton Sobell and Joel Barr. Perl graduated with a degree in engineering in 1939, and in 1940 began working for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics at their Langley Army Air Base research facility in Hampton, Virginia. In 1944 Perl transferred to the NACA Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory in Cleveland, Ohio. Both jobs provided Perl with access to extensive classified materials. NACA sent Perl to Columbia University to pursue doctoral studies in Physics. While at Columbia, Perl lived in the same Morton Street apartment where Barr and Alfred Sarant had lived.
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