Alvarez, Luis Walter

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Alvarez, Luis Walter (1911–88) US physicist who received the 1968 Nobel Prize in physics for developing the liquid-hydrogen bubble chamber. Alvarez used it to identify many ‘resonances’ (very short-lived particles). He also helped construct the first proton linear accelerator. Alvarez worked on the Manhattan Project to develop the atom bomb, and invented a radar guidance system for aircraft.

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