Luis Walter Alvarez - Nobel Prize in Physics — 1968
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Luis Walter Alvarez

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics — 1968
for his decisive contributions to elementary particle physics, in particular the discovery of a large number of resonance states, made possible through his development of the technique of using hydrogen bubble chamber and data analysis
Citizenship
United States United States
Languages
English
date of birth
6/13/1911
place of birth
San Francisco
date of death
9/1/1988
place of death
Berkeley
Lived
77 years

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member of
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1953
  • National Academy of Engineering
  • National Academy of Sciences
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • American Physical Society
  • JASON
educated at
  • University of Chicago
  • San Francisco Polytechnic High School
occupation
  • inventor
  • university teacher
  • physicist
  • nuclear physicist
  • astronomer
position held
  • president
  • university teacher
employer
  • University of California, Berkeley
doctoral student
  • Lawrence H. Johnston
  • Richard A. Muller
field of work
  • physics
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