Luis alvarez and walter alvarez bio
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Luis Alvarez
Luis Alvarez&#;s Timeline
Jun 13th Born in San Francisco, California.
Received his B.S. from the University of Chicago.
Received his M.S. from the University of Chicago.
Received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.
Joined the Radiation Laboratory at the University of California as a research fellow.
Took leave from University of California, Berkeley and joined the Radiation Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Worked at the Metallurgical Laboratory of the University of Chicago.
Worked at the Los Alamos Laboratory of the Manhattan District.
Designed and constructed the University of California, Berkeley&#;s foot proton linear accelerator.
Published the first suggestion for charge exchange acceleration, leading to the development of the &#;Tandem Van de Graaf accelerator.
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics &#;for his decisive contributions to elementary particle physics, in particular the discovery of
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Born in San Francisco in , Luis Alvarez received his PhD from the University of Chicago in Shortly after he began working at the Radiation Laboratory (Rad Lab) at the University of California and then at Massachusetts Institute of Technology until
In , Alvarez joined the Manhattan Project at the University of Chicago’s Met Lab, working on equipment designed to detect possible German nuclear reactors and assisting in the operation of CP In , with the encouragement of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Alvarez moved to Los Alamos and began to work on implosion methods. It was here in New Mexico that he witnessed the Trinity test on July 16, Less than one month later, Alvarez was part of an observation team on the Great Artiste, a B Superfortress alongside the Enola Gay that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6,
After the war, Alvarez received numerous awards for his research, including the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on elementary particle physics in In , Alvarez
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Walter Alvarez
American geologist (born )
For the physicist (his father), see Luis Walter Alvarez. For the physician (his grandfather), see Walter C. Alvarez.
Walter Alvarez (born October 3, ) is a professor in the Earth and Planetary Science department at the University of California, Berkeley. He and his father, Nobel Prize–winning physicistLuis Alvarez, developed the theory that dinosaurs were killed by an asteroid impact.
Biography
[edit]Born in Berkeley, California, Alvarez is the son of Luis Walter Alvarez, a Nobel Prize-winner in physics, and Geraldine Smithwick. His grandfather was physician Walter C. Alvarez and his great-grandfather, Spanish-born Luis F. Alvarez, worked as a doctor in Hawaii and developed a method for the better diagnosis of macular leprosy. His great-aunt Mabel Alvarez was an artist and oil painter from California.[1]
Alvarez earned his B.A. in geology in from Carleton College in Minnesota and Ph.D. in geology from Princeton Univers