1988, ISBN: 9785510864915

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Luis W. Alvarez (June 13, 1911 - September 1, 1988) was an American experimental physicist and inventor, who spent nearly all of his long profe… Plus…

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Luis W. Alvarez (June 13, 1911 - September 1, 1988) was an American experimental physicist and inventor, who spent nearly all of his long professional career on the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley. The American Journal of Physics commented, "Luis Alvarez (1911-1988) was one of the most brilliant and productive experimental physicists of the twentieth century." He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1968, and took out over 40 patents, some of which led to commercial products. Luis Walter Alvarez Russell, Jesse / Cohn, Ronald, Book on Demand Ltd.<