Luis Alvarez (1911-1988). Caricature of the American experimental physicist,inventor and professor Luis Walter Alvarez. Alvarez is one of the best known and most influential experimental physicists of the 20th Century. He joined Ernest Lawrence's Radiation Laboratory at Berkeley in 1937,and worked on radar and the atomic bomb during World War II. In the 1950s he played a major role in developing the bubble chamber. His team at Berkeley discovered numerous new particles with it and Alvarez won the 1968 Nobel prize in physics for this work. In the 1970s and 1980s he became involved in other areas,including the discovery of an iridium layer in Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary clay and the theory that a comet crashed to Earth at the end of the Cretaceous era,causing the death of the dinosaurs | |
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Credit: | Science Photo Library / Brown, Gary |
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