Research topic: Luis Walter Alvarez

Luis Walter Alvarez 1911-88, American physicist, b. San Francisco, grad. Univ. of Chicago, 1932, Ph.D. 1936. He was awarded the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of a large number of residence states (subatomic particles that have very short lifetimes and that occur only in high-energy nuclear collisions), which was made possible through his development of the liquid-hydrogen bubble chamber (see particle detector ). He also helped develop the ground-control approach system for aircraft in the 1940s and played an important part in the Manhattan Project , where he suggested... Read more