Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Luis_Walter_Alvarez> ?p ?o. }
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez abstract "Luis Walter Alvarez (June 13, 1911 – September 1, 1988) was an American experimental physicist, inventor, and professor who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1968. The American Journal of Physics commented, "Luis Alvarez was one of the most brilliant and productive experimental physicists of the twentieth century."After receiving his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1936, Alvarez went to work for Ernest Lawrence at the Radiation Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley. Alvarez devised a set of experiments to observe K-electron capture in radioactive nuclei, predicted by the beta decay theory but never observed. He produced 3H using the cyclotron and measured its lifetime. In collaboration with Felix Bloch, he measured the magnetic moment of the neutron.In 1940 Alvarez joined the MIT Radiation Laboratory, where he contributed to a number of World War II radar projects, from early improvements to Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) radar beacons, now called transponders, to a system known as VIXEN for preventing enemy submarines from realizing that they had been found by the new airborne microwave radars. The radar system for which Alvarez is best known and which has played a major role in aviation, most particularly in the post war Berlin airlift, was Ground Controlled Approach (GCA). Alvarez spent a few months at the University of Chicago working on nuclear reactors for Enrico Fermi before coming to Los Alamos to work for Robert Oppenheimer on the Manhattan project. Alvarez worked on the design of explosive lenses, and the development of exploding-bridgewire detonators. As a member of Project Alberta, he observed the Trinity nuclear test from a B-29 Superfortress, and later the bombing of Hiroshima from the B-29 The Great Artiste.After the war Alvarez was involved in the design of a liquid hydrogen bubble chamber that allowed his team to take millions of photographs of particle interactions, develop complex computer systems to measure and analyze these interactions, and discover entire families of new particles and resonance states. This work resulted in his being awarded the Nobel Prize in 1968. He was involved in a project to x-ray the Egyptian pyramids to search for unknown chambers. With his son, geologist Walter Alvarez, he developed the Alvarez hypothesis which proposes that the extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs was the result of an asteroid impact.".
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez almaMater University_of_Chicago.
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez award Enrico_Fermi_Award.
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez award Medal_for_Merit.
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez birthDate "1911-06-13".
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez birthPlace San_Francisco.
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez birthPlace United_States.
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez birthYear "1911".
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez deathDate "1988-09-01".
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez deathPlace Berkeley,_California.
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez deathYear "1988".
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez doctoralAdvisor Arthur_Compton.
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez field Physics.
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez thumbnail Luis_Walter_Alvarez_1961.jpg?width=300.
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez viafId "30988204".
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez wikiPageExternalLink Alvarez,+Luis.
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez wikiPageExternalLink 4483_1.html.
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez wikiPageExternalLink alvarez.htm.
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez wikiPageExternalLink johnston.html.
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez wikiPageExternalLink alvarez-luis-w.pdf.
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez wikiPageExternalLink luis_walter_alvarez.html.
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez wikiPageExternalLink alvarez-bio.html.
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez wikiPageExternalLink alvarez.html.
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez wikiPageExternalLink display_biblio.cgi?id=ACC0021&numPages=15&fp=N.
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez wikiPageExternalLink display_biblio.cgi?id=ACC0208&numPages=24&fp=N.
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez wikiPageExternalLink display_biblio.cgi?id=ACC0209&numPages=21&fp=N.
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez wikiPageExternalLink display_biblio.cgi?id=ACC0210&numPages=11&fp=N.
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez wikiPageExternalLink display_biblio.cgi?id=ACC0211&numPages=7&fp=N.
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez wikiPageExternalLink display_biblio.cgi?id=ACC0212&numPages=84&fp=N.
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez wikiPageID "320445".
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez wikiPageRevisionID "599208678".
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez almaMater University_of_Chicago.
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez birthDate "1911-06-13".
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez birthPlace San_Francisco.
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez birthPlace United_States.
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez dateOfBirth "1911-06-13".
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez dateOfDeath "1988-09-01".
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez deathCause "Cancer".
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez deathDate "1988-09-01".
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez deathPlace Berkeley,_California.
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez doctoralAdvisor Arthur_Compton.
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez field Physics.
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez hasPhotoCollection Luis_Walter_Alvarez.
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez imageSize "240".
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez name "Alvarez, Luis".
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez name "Luis Walter Alvarez".
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez placeOfBirth San_Francisco.
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez placeOfBirth United_States.
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez placeOfDeath Berkeley,_California.
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez portal "Biography".
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez portal "Dinosaurs".
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez portal "History of science".
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez portal "Nuclear technology".
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez portal "Physics".
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez portal "World War II".
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez prizes Enrico_Fermi_Award.
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez prizes Medal_for_Merit.
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez restingPlace "Ashes scattered over Monterey Bay, California".
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez shortDescription "American physicist".
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez signature "Luis_Alvarez_signature.jpg".
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez title "Alvarez, Luis W.".
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez urlname "Alvarez".
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez wordnet_type synset-scientist-noun-1.
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez workInstitution University_of_California,_Berkeley.
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez description "American physicist".
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez description "American physicist".
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez subject Category:1911_births.
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez subject Category:1988_deaths.
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez subject Category:Accelerator_physicists.
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez subject Category:American_Nobel_laureates.
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez subject Category:American_nuclear_physicists.
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez subject Category:American_people_of_Asturian_descent.
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez subject Category:American_people_of_Spanish_descent.
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez subject Category:American_physicists.
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez subject Category:Collier_Trophy_recipients.
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez subject Category:Enrico_Fermi_Award_recipients.
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez subject Category:Experimental_physicists.
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez subject Category:Fellows_of_the_American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences.
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez subject Category:Inventors.
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez subject Category:Los_Alamos_National_Laboratory_personnel.
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez subject Category:Manhattan_Project_people.
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez subject Category:National_Medal_of_Science_laureates.
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez subject Category:Nobel_laureates_in_Physics.
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez subject Category:People_associated_with_the_atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki.
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez subject Category:Researchers_of_the_John_F._Kennedy_assassination.
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez subject Category:Scientific_instrument_makers.
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez subject Category:University_of_California,_Berkeley_faculty.
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez subject Category:University_of_Chicago_alumni.
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez type AcceleratorPhysicists.
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez type Acquirer109764201.
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez type AmericanNobelLaureates.
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez type AmericanNuclearPhysicists.
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez type AmericanPeopleOfAsturianDescent.
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez type AmericanPeopleOfSpanishDescent.
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez type AmericanPhysicists.
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez type Associate109816771.
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez type CausalAgent100007347.
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez type Colleague109935990.
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez type Creator109614315.
- Luis_Walter_Alvarez type ExperimentalPhysicists.