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    Luis Walter Alvarez (June 13, 1911 – September 1, 1988) was an American experimental physicist, inventor, and professor who was awarded the Nobel Prize...
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    Luis Alvarez, developed the theory that dinosaurs were killed by an asteroid impact. Born in Berkeley, California, Alvarez is the son of Luis Walter Alvarez...
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  • rock band, El Haragán y Compañía Luis Álvarez Torres (es) (1913–1995), leading Peruvian actor José Luis Álvarez y Álvarez (es) (1930–2023), Spanish politician...
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  • Sixto Álvarez, aka Fray Mocho, Argentine writer Julia Alvarez (born 1950), American writer Severiano Álvarez (1933–2013), Spanish writer Ada Álvarez, Cuban-Mexican...
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    Mabel Alvarez. Alvarez was married to the former Harriet Skidmore Smythe and the couple had four children: Gladys, Luis, Robert and Bernice. Luis later...
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    hypothesis is named after the father-and-son team of scientists Luis and Walter Alvarez, who first suggested it in 1980. Shortly afterwards, and independently...
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    Archibald Wheeler (1966) Charles H. Townes (1967) John Bardeen (1968) Luis Walter Alvarez (1969) Edward Mills Purcell (1970) Robert Serber (1971) Philip M...
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    Trent Cappa 2022 Susie Searches Jesse 2023 A Good Person Mark The Line Tom Backster Oppenheimer Luis Walter Alvarez 2024 A Quiet Place: Day One Reuben...
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  • Luis Fernández Álvarez (1 April 1853 – 24 May 1937) was a Spanish American physician and researcher who practiced in California and Hawaii. Fernández was...
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    Machine, 1994. Bohemian Club Constitution, 1904 Trower, W. P. (2009). Luis Walter Alvarez 1911–1988 (PDF). Biographical Memoirs. National Academy of Sciences...
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    have excelled in science are Luis Walter Álvarez, Nobel Prize–winning physicist of Spanish descent, and his son Walter Alvarez, a geologist. They first proposed...
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    Haldan Keffer Hartline; George Wald Miguel Ángel Asturias None 1968 Luis Walter Alvarez Lars Onsager Robert W. Holley; Har Gobind Khorana; Marshall Warren...
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    executive order. Ansel Adams Samuel Adams John Adams* Muhammad Ali Luis Walter Alvarez Susan B. Anthony* Hannah Arendt Louis Armstrong Neil Armstrong Crispus...
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    dinosaurs. In the late 1970s, geologist Walter Alvarez and his father, Nobel Prize-winning scientist Luis Walter Alvarez, put forth their theory that the Cretaceous–Paleogene...
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  • critter" hypothesis. In 1948, the Saturday Evening Post quoted Luis Walter Alvarez's opinion that the "gizmos" appeared to be "alive". In April 1949...
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    radar made possible by the cavity magnetron. The project was led by Luis Walter Alvarez. Deployed to the European Theater in 1944, the MEW proved to be an...
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    grew up to be Nobel Prize winners in physics: William Shockley and Luis Walter Alvarez. Based on the historical findings of the Terman study and on biographical...
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    published his theory of beta decay in 1934, but an experiment by Luis Walter Alvarez had produced results at variance with the theory. Wu set out to repeat...
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    Leopoldo Alas José Andrés (chef) Federico Romero Indalecio Prieto Luis Walter Alvarez (Nobel Prize in Physics) Severo Ochoa (Nobel Prize in Physiology...
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    physics given by distinguished scientists such as Robert Oppenheimer, Luis Walter Alvarez, Hans Bethe. The memorial fund lasted until 1962. In 2002, an asteroid...
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  • (1908–1991) William Shockley (1910–1989) Dorothy Hodgkin (1910–1994) Luis Walter Alvarez (1911–1988) Chien-Shiung Wu (1912–1997) Willis Lamb (1913–2008) Charles...
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    of Minnesota Doctoral advisor Hereward L. Cooke Doctoral students Luis Walter Alvarez Winston H. Bostick Robert S. Shankland Piara Singh Gill Joyce C....
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  • Piccioni, and Ettore Pancini in Rome. In this experiment, which Luis Walter Alvarez called the "start of modern particle physics" in his 1968 Nobel lecture...
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    He transferred to the University of California in Berkeley, where Luis Walter Alvarez was a graduate student. Johnston received his bachelor's degree in...
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    Wilson, actress Michael York, actor Yung Gravy (Matt Hauri), rapper Luis Walter Alvarez, winner of Nobel Prize for Physics 1968 Harry Bisel, physician Sara...
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  • Germany's nuclear weapons program during World War II. Alex Wolff as Luis Walter Alvarez, a Nobel-winning physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project. Josh...
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    2012—Alexandre Chorin, posthumous David Blackwell 2013—Michael Artin 1963—Luis Walter Alvarez 1964—Julian Schwinger, Harold Urey, Robert Burns Woodward 1965—John...
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  • Working at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, she assisted Luis Walter Alvarez in his Nobel Prize winning research using a bubble chamber to discover...
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    Luis Walter Alvarez, Ahmed Fakhry and Jerry Anderson...
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    uncommitted strength. In spite of this, observers such as physicists Luis Alvarez and Jeremy Bernstein have suggested that if Oppenheimer had lived long...
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