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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 Álvarez or Luis Alvarez may refer to: Ángel Luis Arambilet Álvarez (born 1957), Dominican writer, artist, filmmaker, and engineer; professionally...
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  • Luis Álvarez can refer to: José Luis Álvarez (artist) (1917–2012), Guatemalan artist José Luis Álvarez (fencer) (born 1969), Spanish fencer José Luis...
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    physicist Luis Alvarez, developed the theory that dinosaurs were killed by an asteroid impact. Born in Berkeley, California, Alvarez is the son of Luis Walter...
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  • Tarantula identity has been carried on by a series of successors (such as Luis Alvarez and Jacinda Rodriguez). A modern version of Tarantula (Maria Vasquez)...
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  • Luis Álvarez-Gaumé (born 1955) is a Spanish theoretical physicist who works on string theory and quantum gravity. Luis Álvarez-Gaumé obtained his PhD in...
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  • Luis Álvarez Renta (born April 9, 1950) is a Dominican economist. Álvarez Renta was found liable by a federal jury in Miami of civil racketeering and...
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  • Luis. "Equipo de Estados Unidos contrata a jugador de equipo capitalino". deportestvc.com. "Equipo de Estados Unidos adquiere fichaje de Luis Álvarez...
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    Luis Echeverría Álvarez (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈlwis etʃeβeˈri.a ˈalβaɾes]; 17 January 1922 – 8 July 2022) was a Mexican lawyer, academic, and politician...
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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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    Luis Álvarez Roure (born 1976) is a Puerto Rican realist painter based in New Jersey. He is known for his figure paintings as well as his portraits of...
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    emphasises low magnitude, high frequency events. In 1980, Walter and Luis Alvarez published a paper suggesting that a 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) asteroid struck...
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    Luis Antonio Álvarez Murillo (born 13 April 1991, in Mexicali), also known as El Abuelo (The Grandfather), is a Mexican athlete who competes in archery...
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  • José Luis Álvarez (3 June 1917 Guatemala City – 5 February 2012 Antigua Guatemala) was a Guatemalan artist who, from 1976 until his death, lived and painted...
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    Shoemaker's Holiday as Rowland Lacy and Tom Morton-Smith's Oppenheimer as Luis Alvarez at the Swan Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. The following year, he took...
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  • Fernando Luis Alvarez is a Colombian-American art gallerist, artist, activist, patron of the arts, and philanthropist based in Stamford, Connecticut. He...
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    Luis Héctor Álvarez Álvarez (October 25, 1919 – May 18, 2016) was a Mexican industrialist and politician. Álvarez was a member of the National Action...
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  • Mabel Alvarez (1891–1985), American oil painter, daughter of Luis F. Álvarez Negra Álvarez (born 1948), Salvadoran visual artist Pedro Álvarez Castelló...
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    Jesús Luis "Koldo" Álvarez de Eulate Güergue (born 4 September 1970) is a former footballer who played as a goalkeeper, currently manager of the Andorra...
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    crust. As originally proposed in 1980 by a team of scientists led by Luis Alvarez and his son Walter, it is now generally thought that the K–Pg extinction...
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    via archive.org. "Luis Alvarez, biography". Nobel Prize. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1968. Retrieved 7 October 2009. Alvarez, Luis W. (1937). "Nuclear...
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    CERN Proton Synchrotron started accelerating protons to 25 GeV in 1959. Luis Alvarez led the design and construction of several liquid hydrogen bubble chambers...
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  • Dictionary. University of Illinois Press. p. xxi. ISBN 9780252076602. Alvarez, Luis (2009). The Power of the Zoot: Youth Culture and Resistance During World...
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    Summer Olympics. Eduardo is a son of six-time Olympian Luis Álvarez de Cervera. "Eduardo Álvarez Aznar". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 2 October...
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    José Luis Álvarez y Álvarez (4 April 1930 – 23 August 2023) was a Spanish politician. He was the city of Madrid's mayor from 3 March 1978 to 5 January...
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    Luis Álvarez Catalá (22 January 1836 – 4 October 1901) was a Spanish painter of historical scenes and Director of the Museo del Prado from 1898 to 1901...
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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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    Morcillo, Sara P.; Miguel, Delia; Campaña, Araceli G.; Cienfuegos, Luis Álvarez de; Justicia, José; Cuerva, Juan M. (2014). "Recent applications of Cp2TiCl...
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  • María Álvarez de Sotomayor (1880–1947), Spanish playwright and poet José Luis Álvarez (artist) (1917–2012), Guatemalan artist José María Álvarez (born...
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    Discovering Alvarez: Selected Works of Luis W. Alvarez. University of Chicago Press. pp. 11–12. ISBN 978-0-226-81304-2. "The Nobel Prize in Physics 1968: Luis Alvarez"...
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