Luis Walter Alvarez was a physician who won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1968.[1] He was born on June 13, 1911 in San Francisco, California.[1] His grandfather lived in Spain, then Cuba, and then the United States.[1] Alvarez studied physics at the University of Chicago and joined the faculty at University of California, Berkeley, in 1936.[1] Alvarez discovered that some radioactive elements decay by orbital-electron capture.[1] He also worked on microwave radar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and participated in the development of the atomic bomb.[1] In 1980, he worked with his son, a geologist, and together they publicized research on the extinction of dinosaurs.[2]
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https://www.britannica.com/biography/Luis-Alvarez
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