Birth Name:

Luis Walter Alvarez

Male

Birth Date:

Tue, Jun 13, 1911

Time of Birth:

02:45 AM

Place of Birth:

San Francisco, California, United States

Age:

113

Zodiac Sign:

Gemini

Astrology Data:

Sun

21°

Gem

18'

Moon

8°

Cap

4'

Asc

15°

Tau

5'

MC

27°

Cap

24'

About Luis Walter Alvarez

Luis Walter Alvarez (June 13, 1911 – September 1, 1988) was an American experimental physicist, inventor, and professor who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1968 for development of the hydrogen bubble chamber enabling discovery of resonance states in particle physics. 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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External Links:

• Luis Walter Alvarez on Nobelprize.org including the Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1968 Recent Developments in Particle Physics

• About Luis Alvarez

• IEEE interview with Johnston, patentholder of the exploding-bridgewire detonator

• Annotated bibliography for Luis Alvarez from the Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues

• Garwin, Richard L., 1992, "Memorial Tribute For Luis W. Alvarez" in Memorial Tributes, National Academy of Engineering, Vol. 5. Washington DC: National Academy Press.

• Biography and Bibliographic Resources, from the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, United States Department of Energy

• Oral History interview transcript with Luiz Alvarez 14, 15 February 1967, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library and Archives

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for Luis Walter Alvarez: Sun 21 Gemini, Moon 8 Capricorn, Mercury 0 Gemini, Venus 5 Leo, Mars 7 Aries, Jupiter 5 Scorpio, Saturn 15 Taurus, Uranus 28 Capricorn, Neptune 20 Cancer, Pluto 27 Gemini, Asc 15 Taurus, Mc 27 Capricorn, Moon Square Mars, Mercury Trine Midheaven, Sun Semi Square Venus, Sun Sesquiquadrate Jupiter, Sun Semi Sextile Neptune, Sun Conjunct Pluto, Moon Quincunx Venus, Moon Sextile Jupiter, Mercury Trine Uranus, Venus Trine Mars, Venus Square Jupiter, Mars Quincunx Jupiter, Saturn Semi Square Pluto, Saturn Conjunct Ascendant, Uranus Quincunx Pluto, Uranus Conjunct Midheaven, Pluto Semi Square Ascendant, Pluto Quincunx Midheaven

Categories related to Luis Walter Alvarez: University of California, June 13 births, University of Chicago alumni, Fellows of the American Physical Society, Experimental physicists, Nobel laureates in Physics, Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1988 deaths, American politicians of Cuban descent, 20th-century American physicists, People from San Francisco, American Nobel laureates, American people of Spanish descent, Berkeley faculty, American people of Cuban descent, 20th-century American inventors, American agnostics, Accelerator physicists, National Medal of Science laureates, Particle physicists, Los Alamos National Laboratory personnel, Members of JASON (advisory group), Collier Trophy recipients, American nuclear physicists, Enrico Fermi Award recipients, Manhattan Project people, 1911 births, American people of Asturian descent, People associated with the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, American scientific instrument makers

Photo attribution: Unknown author, [1] Dutch National Archives, The Hague, Fotocollectie Algemeen Nederlands Persbureau (ANEFO), 1945-1989