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Luis Walter Alvarez
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Luis Walter Alvarez

Inventor · born June 13, 1911 · died 1988

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Luis Walter Alvarez was an American experimental physicist, inventor, and professor who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1968 for his discovery of resonance states in particle physics using the hydrogen bubble chamber.

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  1. ~50Received the Albert Einstein Award1961
  2. ~52Received the National Medal of Science1963
  3. ~57Received the Nobel Prize in Physics1968
  4. ~76Received the Enrico Fermi Award1987

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