Luis Alvarez 1911 - 1988 Photo: Luis (left) and Walter (right) Alvarez. Luis Alvarez was a physicist with wide ranging interests. At the University of Chicago, he took a class called Advanced Experimental Physics: Light, and later claimed, It was love at first sight. He graduated in 1932 and stayed at Chicago for his graduate work. He married, had two kids, and moved to Berkeley, where he ...

Luis Alvarez 1968 Nobel Prize for Physics Presentation of Award Acceptance Speech M. Alvarez, Address to the University Students on the Evening of December 10, 1968 Biography Submitted by Dr. Alvarez to the Nobel Committee Presentation of the 1968 Nobel Prize for Physics Professor S. Von Friesen of the Royal Academy of Sciences. Translation. Milt White beside the 60-inch cyclotron with which ...

The Garwin Archive MEMORIAL TRIBUTE FOR LUIS W. ALVAREZ May 1, 1991 MEMORIAL TRIBUTE FOR LUIS W. ALVAREZ Richard L. Garwin (Published in Memorial Tributes, National Academy of Engineering, Volume 5, National Academy Press, Washington, DC, 1992) Luis W. Alvarez was an outstanding scientist and engineer. It is a challenge to his friends and biographers to do justice to the breadth and depth of ...