Luis Walter Alvarez
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 Luis Walter Alvarez | |
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| Born | 13 Juin 1911 San Francisco, Californie, USA |
| Died | 1 September 1988 (aged 77) Berkeley, Californie, USA |
Cause o daith | Cancer |
Restin place | Ashes scattered ower Monterey Bay, Californie |
| Naitionality | American |
| Alma mater | varsity o Chicago |
| Hauf-marrae(s) | Geraldine Smithwick (m. 1936; div. 1957) Janet L. Landis (m. 1958) |
| Awairds | Medal for Merit (1947) Naitional Medal o Science (1963) Nobel Prize in Pheesics (1968) Enrico Fermi awaird (1987) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Pheesics |
| Institutions | Varsity o Californie, Berkeley |
| Doctoral advisor | Arthur Compton |
| Signatur |  |
Luis Walter Alvarez (Juin 13, 1911 – September 1, 1988) wis an American experimental pheesicist, inventor, an professor wha wis awairdit the Nobel Prize in Pheesics in 1968. The American Journal of Physics commentit, "Luis Alvarez wis ane o the maist brilliant an productive experimental pheesicists o the twentiet century."[1]
References[eedit | eedit soorce]
- ↑ Wohl, C. G. (2007). "Scientist as detective: Luis Alvarez and the pyramid burial chambers, the JFK assassination, and the end of the dinosaurs". American Journal of Physics. 75 (11): 968. Bibcode:2007AmJPh..75..968W. doi:10.1119/1.2772290.
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