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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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  • Mabel Alvarez and Walter C. Alvarez Luis Walter Alvarez (1911–1988), American physicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics, son of Walter C. Alvarez...
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  • Luis Álvarez or Luis Alvarez may refer to: Ángel Luis Arambilet Álvarez (born 1957), Dominican writer, artist, filmmaker, and engineer; professionally...
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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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    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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    Gilpin 2021 Pig Amir Old Trent 2023 A Good Person Mark The Line Tom Oppenheimer Luis Walter Alvarez 2024 A Quiet Place: Day One Reuben Post-production...
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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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • (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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    radar made possible by the cavity magnetron. This project, led by Luis Walter Alvarez, became the world's first microwave phased-array antenna. Deployed...
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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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    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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    20 March 2016. Retrieved 4 March 2015. Bonolis 2001, pp. 321–324. Hey & Walters 2003, p. 61. Bonolis 2001, pp. 329–330. Cooper 1999, p. 31. Fermi 1954...
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    American film director, animator and illustrator (d. 1999) June 13 Luis Walter Alvarez, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988) Prince Aly Khan...
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    laureate Willard Libby (Chemistry, 1960) and future Nobel laureate Luis Walter Alvarez (Physics, 1968). The first honorees were chosen by a national board...
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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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    from the original on 2017-06-30. Retrieved 2017-07-02. "Robert Serber". Walter, Claire (1982). Winners, the blue ribbon encyclopedia of awards. Facts on...
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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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  • Wesleyan, 1920): theologian; author of The Power of Positive Thinking Luis Walter Alvarez (Chicago, 1932): Nobel Prize winner, Physics, 1968. Eugene Cernan...
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    approximately 50 sports trophies that went missing after the school closed. Luis Walter Alvarez, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics Warner Baxter, Academy Award...
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  • period of 33.4 hours. It was named for scientists Luis Alvarez and his son Walter Alvarez. Alvarez is a Mars-crossing asteroid, a dynamically unstable...
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