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WFS Profiles: Luis Alvarez 1911 – 1988

Photo Courtesy :LBNL Image Library — Collection BERKELEY-LAB/PEOPLE/INDIVIDUALS Luis Alvarez was a physicist with wide ranging interests. At the University of Chicago, he took a class called Advanced Experimental Physics: Light, and later claimed, “It was love at first sight.” He graduated in 1932 and stayed at Chicago for his graduate work. He married, had […]