Luis Walter Alvarez
Luis Walter Alvarez
Luis Walter Alvarezwas an American experimental physicist, inventor, and professor who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1968. The American Journal of Physics commented, "Luis Alvarez was one of the most brilliant and productive experimental physicists of the twentieth century."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhysicist
Date of Birth13 June 1911
CountryUnited States of America
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At the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, we have long had a tradition of close cooperation between physicists and technicians.
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If the president of the college had asked me what I thought about Dewey McLean, I'd say he's a weak sister. I thought he'd been knocked out of the ball game and had just disappeared, because nobody invites him to conferences anymore.
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Janet Landis came to work in my group in the summer of 1957 when our first bubble-chamber was churning out its earliest pictures.
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One indicator of Ernest Lawrence's influence is the fact that I am the eighth member of his laboratory staff to receive the highest award that can come to a scientist - the Nobel Prize.
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Because Ernest Lawrence's award came in the war years, I had the unusual opportunity of attending his Nobel Prize presentation ceremony.
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When I received my B. S. degree in 1932, only two of the fundamental particles of physics were known.