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	Luis Alvarez - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alvarez won the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physics for "the discovery of a large number of resonance states, made possible through his development of the technique of using hydrogen bubble chamber and data analysis".
		In 1980, with his son Walter Alvarez, a geologist, Luis proposed the asteroid-impact theory to explain the iridium anomaly of the K-T extinction boundary, the observed increased abundance of iridium in strata of that time.
		Alvarez also proposed a jet-recoil theory for the Kennedy assassination to explain why John F. Kennedy's head jerked backwards if Lee Harvey Oswald, shooting from behind the president, was the assassin.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Luis_Walter_Alvarez (368 words)

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		Born in San Francisco, Alvarez graduated from the University of Chicago with a B.S. in 1932 and a Ph.D. (physics) in 1936.
		He was an assistant physics instructor from 1936 to 1938; an associate professor from 1938 to 1945; associate director of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory from 1954 to 1959; and a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1945.
		Alvarez was a member of the President's Science Advisory Committee from 1971 to 1972.
	www.invent.org /hall_of_fame/4.html (157 words)

	LUIS F. ALVAREZ
		LUIS F. Luis F. Alvarez was born in La Puerta, a village near Oviedo, Asturias, Spain, on April 1st, 1853.
		In 1895, Dr. Alvarez resigned his position in Waialua to prepare himself for work as Superintendent of a new experimental hospital for the treatment of leprosy which was to be established in Kalihi, a suburb of Honolulu.
		Luis Alvarez was an indefatigable worker, and during his many years in Hawaii, he was on call 24 hours out of the 24.
	hml.org /mmhc/mdindex/alvarez.html (775 words)

	Luis Walter Alvarez (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Luis Alvarez, named after his Spanish grandfather, was born on June 13, 1911, in San Francisco, California.
		Alvarez was saddened by the thought of all the people who had lost their lives, and later wrote a letter to his son saying that he hoped the powerful and destructive atom bomb would inspire people to prevent future wars.
		Alvarez was given a piece of layered rock from the mountains of Italy that contained a mystery about the history of the earth.
	www.ceemast.csupomona.edu /nova/alverez.html (739 words)

	Luis Alvarez - Biography
		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.
	nobelprize.org /physics/laureates/1968/alvarez-bio.html (719 words)

	MEMORIAL TRIBUTE FOR LUIS W. ALVAREZ
		Luis Alvarez was a consultant over the years to numerous agencies of the United States government and was a member of the President's Science Advisory Committee in 1973.
		In 1934, Luis began his long involvement with aviation, soloing "with just three hours of dual instruction." He flew for 50 years, logging more than a thousand hours as a pilot before deciding at the age of 73 that it was time to put away that demanding and delightful avocation.
		Luis Alvarez was very much aware of himself and carried into his physics the constructive competitive spirit he had learned early in athletics.
	www.fas.org /rlg/alvarez.htm (2276 words)

	Alvarez, Luis Walter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In 1980 Alvarez was responsible for the theory that dinosaurs disappeared because a meteorite crashed into Earth 70 million years ago, producing a dust cloud that blocked out the Sun for several years, causing dinosaurs and plants to die.
		In 1953 Alvarez met Donald Glaser, inventor of the bubble-chamber detector for subatomic particles.
		Alvarez and co-workers used the bubble chamber to discover a large number of new short-lived particles, including the K (the first meson) and the Omega meson.
	www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/A/Alvarez/1.html (311 words)

	Gale - Free Resources - Hispanic Heritage - Biographies - Luis Alvarez (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Luis Alvarez's scientific contributions to the military during World War II included the development of a narrow beam radar system that allows airplanes to land in inclement weather.
		Alvarez reported in his autobiography Alvarez: Adventures of a Physicist, that his science classes at Rochester High School were "adequately taught [but] not very interesting." Dr. Alvarez noticed his son's growing interest in physics and hired one of the Mayo Clinic's machinists to give Luis private lessons on weekends.
		Alvarez "discovered" physics in his junior year and enrolled in a laboratory course, "Advanced Experimental Physics: Light" about which he later wrote in his autobiography: "It was love at first sight." He changed his major to physics and received his B.S. in 1932.
	www.galegroup.com /free_resources/chh/bio/alvarez_l.htm (2258 words)

	A Science Odyssey: People and Discoveries: Luis Alvarez (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Luis Alvarez was a physicist with wide ranging interests.
		Alvarez was shocked and sickened by what he saw, but because the war ended so soon afterwards, he never expressed doubts about the bomb's use.
		Alvarez's other claims to fame are in assisting the Warren Commission that investigated the assasination of President Kennedy and holding 22 patents, including an indoor golf-training machine he developed for President Eisenhower.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/aso/databank/entries/boalva.html (330 words)

	Alvarez, Luis W.,
		Alvarez worked on microwave radar research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge (1940-43), and participated in the development of the atomic bomb at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, Los Alamos, N.M., in 1944-45.
		After World War II Alvarez helped construct the first proton linear accelerator and developed the liquid hydrogen bubble chamber in which subatomic particles and their reactions are detected.
		In about 1980 Alvarez helped his son, the geologist Walter Alvarez, publicize Walter's discovery of a worldwide layer of clay that has a high iridium content and which occupies rock strata at the geochronological boundary between the Mesozoic and Cenozoic eras; i.e., about 66.4 million years ago.
	www.britannica.com /nobel/micro/17_84.html (372 words)

	Luis W. Alvarez -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Alvarez, Luis W. American experimental physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1968 for work that included the discovery of many resonance particles (subatomic particles having extremely short lifetimes and occurring only in high-energy nuclear collisions).
		Alvarez, A. British novelist, essayist, and critic whose works explore the interaction of public and private forces that shape personality and behaviour.
		Alvarez, Luis W. The experimental physicist Luis W. Alvarez won the 1968 Nobel prize for physics for work that included the discovery of resonance particles—subatomic particles that have very short lifetimes and that occur only in high-energy nuclear collisions.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9005963 (692 words)

	ScienceMatters @ Berkeley. Luis Alvarez, adventurer physicist
		Indeed, Alvarez flew in the plane trailing the aircraft that dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
		Alvarez improved upon Glaser's instrument and used it to discover a large number of resonance states, subatomic particles that can't be directly detected because they live for so short a time.
		In 1980, he and his son Walter Alvarez, a UC Berkeley geologist, first posited the now widely-accepted theory that a giant asteroid crashed into the Earth 65 million years ago, spewing smoke in the atmosphere that blocked the sun, eventually leading to the death of the dinosaurs.
	sciencematters.berkeley.edu /legacy.php (532 words)

	Walter Alvarez (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Walter Alvarez was born in Berkeley, California, in 1940.
		Dr. Alvarez is currently a professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
		Alvarez and his team, which included his father Dr. Luis Alvarez, Frank Asaro, and Helen Michel, proposed that an asteroid hit the earth, throwing up a dust layer that encircled the earth and lead to the extinction of the dinosaurs.
	www.ceemast.csupomona.edu /nova/alvarez2.html (449 words)

	STEM Camp '98: Luis Walter Alvarez (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Luis Walter Alvarez was born on June 13th, 1911 in San Francisco.
		Alvarez joined the faculty of Berkeley in 1936, and became a professor of physics in 1945.
		Luis Alvarez went on to participate in many important projects, such as the development of the atomic bomb in Los Alamos, New Mexico, in 1938.
	cctr.umkc.edu /~HAMP/98_essays/alvarez.htm (380 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Luis Cernuda
		Cernuda, Luis (1902–1963), Spanish poet, who produced a single volume of poetry, La realidad y el deseo.
		Alvarez, Luis Walter (1911-1988), American scientist born in San Francisco and educated at the University of Chicago, who won the 1968 Nobel Prize...
		Buñuel, Luis (1900-1983), Spanish motion-picture director, one of the masters of 20th-century cinema.
	encarta.msn.com /Luis_Cernuda.html (124 words)

	SJSU Virtual Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Alvarez's first scientific discovery was the phenomenon of orbital electron capture.
		Among other things, Alvarez is credited with the development of the microwave beacon, the linear radar antennae, and ground-controlled radar landing approaches for aircraft.
		After the war ended, Alvarez worked with others to construct the first linear accelerator for protons (1947) and the bubble chamber for observing electrically charged subatomic particles.
	www.sjsu.edu /depts/Museum/alv.html (244 words)

	Luis Donaldo Colosio biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta (10 February 1948 - 23 March 1994) was a Mexican politician who was murdered during a stop on his presidential campaign.
		Born into a family with a long political heritage in Magdalena de Kino, Sonora, Colosio Murrieta studied at the ITESM, after which he joined the PRI (1972).
		Colosio's father is still determined to uncover what he suspects are hidden truths behind his son murder and, in 2004, he published a book about the case.
	luis-donaldo-colosio.biography.ms (713 words)

	AllRefer.com - Luis Walter Alvarez (Physics, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		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 the technique for detonating the implosion type of atomic bomb.
		A member of the National Inventor's Hall of Fame, Alvarez held the patents for more than 30 inventions, including three types of radar systems.
		His autobiography, Alvarez: Adventures of a Physicist, was published in 1987.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/A/AlvarezLu.html (291 words)

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		Luis and Walter Alvarez rocketed the scientific world with a 1980 article in Science magazine giving evidence that the impact of a large asteroid killed the dinosaurs.
		An early supporter of the Alvarezes' idea of an impact-caused extinction at the Cretaceous- Tertiary boundary was the geochemist Kenneth J. Hsu, only he thought a comet was the culprit, not an asteroid.
		Hsu, along with the Alvarezes and others, has a place in the history of science for his perseverance against ingrained dogma.
	www.georgiasouthern.edu /~etmcmull/HSU.htm (1379 words)

	HispanicOnline - Hispanic Heritage Plaza 2002
		Luis Walter Alvarez, who would win the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1968, played an important role in a U.S. government project during WWII.
		Born in San Francisco, California, on June 13, 1911, physicist Luis Walter Alvarez left his post at MIT in 1943 to join the secret Manhattan Project to develop the first atomic bomb.
		Mexican muralists Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and José Clemente Orozco were all receiving commissions and were very active in art circles in California from 1930 to 1931, inspiring U.S. artists to follow their example.
	www.hispaniconline.com /hh02/trivia_general10.html (112 words)

	A Science Odyssey: People and Discoveries: Alvarez finds evidence of dinosaur-killing asteroid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In 1980 physicist Luis Alvarez and his son, geologist Walter Alvarez, both of the University of California, were working together on a geology expedition in Italy.
		The Alvarezes hypothesized that the iridium, which was in a very even, widespread distribution (not just in Italy), was the result of a giant asteroid that hit Earth, sending smoke, dust, and iridium into the atmosphere.
		The pollution eventually settled to the ground, forming a thin layer of iridium.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/aso/databank/entries/do80di.html (192 words)

	Lamont and the Impact Hypothesis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		One of the most significant contributions to geological knowledge is the “asteroid impact hypothesis” of Luis and Walter Alvarez and their Berkeley colleagues, Frank Asaro and Helen Michel.
		In 1973, Walter Alvarez and I were young researchers at Lamont.
		One evening, some months later, we were having dinner in Urbino after a day of magnetostratigraphic sampling when Walt was called to the telephone to take an international call from his father.
	www.ldeo.columbia.edu /ldeo/alum/stories/Lowrie_Bill_Impact.htm (584 words)

	Luis Carrero Blanco biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Luis Carrero Blanco (March 4, 1903 - December 20, 1973), was a Spanish admiral and statesman.
		He entered the Naval Academy in 1918 and participated in the Moroccan campaign of 1924-1926.
		Since Carrero could have become Franco's successor, his death forced the transition toward a democratic governement in Spain.
	luis-carrero-blanco.biography.ms (286 words)

	Luis Walter Alvarez
		Alvarez was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1968.
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	Dinosaur Extinction Page
		In the late 1970's Luis and Walter Alvarez (father and son) along with a team of scientists from the University of California were making a study of the rocks around the K-T boundary in Gubbio, Italy.
		In particular they were looking at an unusual layer of clay at the boundary point which contained an unusual spike in the amounts of the rare element iridium.
		The first people to suggest the asteroid theory were the team lead by Luis and Walter Alvarez.
	web.ukonline.co.uk /a.buckley/dino.htm (2059 words)

	Alvarez, Luis Walter on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		He; his son, the geologist Walter Alvarez, 1940-, b.
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	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Jorge Luis Borges
		Borges, Jorge Luis (1899-1986), Argentine writer, whose challenging and unconventional poetry and fiction made him one of the foremost figures in...
		Buenos Aires (city): Jorge Luis Borges, famous writer
		The city has produced or nurtured many of the most prominent Spanish-language writers of the 20th century, including Jorge Luis Borges, Julio...
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	The Comet's Tale: Killer Comets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The main hypothesis was proposed in 1980 by (among others) Luis and Walter Alvarez of the University of California at Berkeley.
		The original Alvarez hypothesis is the basis for several subsequent variations on the theme that a large extraterrestrial object (asteroid or comet) collided with the Earth, its impact throwing up enough dust to cause the climatic change.
		No crater was originally found, but it was assumed that one existed that was about 65 million years old and 100 kilometers (about 65 miles) in diameter.
	cse.ssl.berkeley.edu /SegwayEd/lessons/cometstale/comkkk1.html (235 words)

	Luis Alvarez (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Luis Walter Alvarez (June 13, 1911 – September 1, 1988) of San Francisco, California, USA, was a famed physicist who worked at the University of California, Berkeley.
		With geologist son Walter, in 1980, Luis proposed the asteroid-impact theory to explain the iridium anomaly of the K-T extinction boundary.
		Alvarez, Luis W. Alvarez: Adventure of a Physicist, New York: Basic Books, 1987, ISBN 0465001157
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/L/Luis-Alvarez.htm (298 words)

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