Alvarez, Luis W., 1911-1988

LC control no.	n 85280938
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Alvarez, Luis W., 1911-1988 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Alvarez, Luis, 1911-1988 Alvarez, L. W. (Luis Walter), 1911-1988 Alvarez, Luis Walter, 1911-1988
Associated country	United States
Associated place	Chicago (Ill.) Berkeley (Calif.) Massachusetts
Birth date	1911-06-13
Death date	1988-09-01
Place of birth	San Francisco (Calif.)
Field of activity	Physics
Affiliation	University of Chicago Lawrence Radiation Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Radiation Laboratory United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development. Metallurgical Laboratory Los Alamos National Laboratory
Profession or occupation	Physicists Inventors Nobel Prize winners College teachers University and college faculty members
Found in	His Alvarez, c1987: CIP t.p. (Luis W. Alvarez) galley (b. 1911) NUCMC data from Amer. Inst. of Physics, Center for Hist. and Philosophy of Physics for Historical interviews with 20th century physicists and astronomers, 1963-70 (Luis W. Alvarez) Washington Post, 9/3/88 (Luis W. Alvarez, 77, Nobel Prizewinning physicist, d. 8/31/88 in Berkeley, Calif.) Luis Walter Álvarez, c2005: ECIP t.p. (Luis Walter Álvarez) ch. 2 (b. June 13, 1911) Washington State University Libraries Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (website), viewed July 6, 2021: Guide to the Luis W. Alvarez Letter to Ryokichi Sagane 1945 August 9, Cage 1603 (Luis W. Alvarez (June 13, 1911 September 1, 1988) was an American experimental physicist and inventor who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1968. After receiving his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1936, Alvarez went to work for Ernest Lawrence at the Radiation Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1940 Alvarez joined the MIT Radiation Laboratory, where he contributed to a number of World War II radar projects, from early improvements to Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) radar beacons, now called transponders, to a system known as VIXEN for preventing enemy submarines from realizing that they had been found by the new airborne microwave radars. After the war Alvarez was involved in the design of a liquid hydrogen bubble chamber that allowed his team to take millions of photographs of particle interactions, develop complex computer systems to measure and analyze these interactions, and discover entire families of new particles and resonance states. This work resulted in his being awarded the Nobel Prize in 1968. He was involved in a project to X-Ray the Egyptian pyramids to search for unknown chambers. He analyzed film footage of the Kennedy assassination and, with his son geologist Walter Alvarez, proposed the Alvarez hypothesis, namely that the extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs was the result of an asteroid impact.) <http://ntserver1.wsulibs.wsu.edu/masc/finders/cg1603.htm> The Nobel Prize (website), viewed July 6, 2021: Luis Alvarez (Luis W. Alvarez was born in San Francisco, Calif., on June 13, 1911. He received his B.Sc. from the University of Chicago in 1932, a M.Sc. in 1934, and his Ph.D. in 1936. Dr. Alvarez joined the Radiation Laboratory of the University of California, where he is now a professor, as a research fellow in 1936. He was on leave at the Radiation Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1940 to 1943, at the Metallurgical Laboratory of the University of Chicago in 1943-1944, and at the Los Alamos Laboratory of the Manhattan District from 1944 to 1945. Dr. Alvarez is responsible for the design and construction of the Berkeley 40-foot proton linear accelerator, which was completed in 1947. In 1951 he published the first suggestion for charge exchange acceleration that quickly led to the development of the "Tandem Van de Graaf accelerator".) <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1968/alvarez/biographical/> Wikipedia (website), viewed July 6, 2021: 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. Alvarez died on September 1, 1988, of complications from a succession of recent operations for esophageal cancer. His remains were cremated, and his ashes were scattered over Monterey Bay. His papers are in The Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley.) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Walter_Alvarez>
Associated language	eng