Physicist Luis Walter Alvarez 1911 - 1988

Oct 12, 1968; Stockholm, Sweden; Dr. LUIS W. ALVAREZ was born in San Francisco, Calif. on June 13, 1911. He received his B.Sc. from the University of Chicago in 1932, a M.Sc. in 1934, and his Ph.D. in 1936. Dr. Alvarez joined the Radiation Laboratory of the University of California, as a research fellow in 1936. He was on leave at the Radiation Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1940 to 1943, at the Metallurgical Laboratory of the University of Chicago in 1943-1944. In 1968 he won the Nobel Prize for Physics. The picure shows his portrait

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Alvarez Calif Fellow Joined Metallurgical Ph.d Radiation Stockholm

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