Luis Walter Alvarez
Luis Walter Alvarez was a Spanish-American experimental physicist, inventor, and professor who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1968 for his discovery of resonance states in particle physics using the hydrogen bubble chamber. In 2007 the American Journal of Physics commented, "Luis Alvarez was one of the most brilliant and productive experimental physicists of the twentieth century."
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- Born in
- San Francisco
- Educated at
- San Francisco Polytechnic High SchoolUniversity of Chicago
- Awards
- 🏆 honorary doctorate of the Autonomous University of Madrid🏆 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences🏆 honorary doctor of Carnegie-Mellon University🏆 honorary doctor of the University of Chicago🏆 Nobel Prize in Physics
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Arthur Holly Compton
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Richard A. Muller📖 Lawrence H. Johnston
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1911
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Birth1988
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