Luis Walter Alvarez

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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Who was born first?

• Luis Walter Alvarez and Klara Dan von Neumann were born the same year
• Luis Walter Alvarez and Willem Johan Kolff were born the same year
• Luis Walter Alvarez and Hans von Ohain were born the same year
• Luis Walter Alvarez was born 1 year after William Shockley
• Luis Walter Alvarez was born 1 year after Momofuku Ando

Timeline

1. Momofuku AndoMarch 5, 1910 – January 5, 2007
2. William ShockleyFebruary 13, 1910 – August 12, 1989
3. Hans von OhainDecember 14, 1911 – March 13, 1998
4. Klara Dan von NeumannAugust 18, 1911 – November 10, 1963
5. Luis Walter Alvarez (this page)June 13, 1911 – September 1, 1988
6. Willem Johan KolffFebruary 14, 1911 – February 11, 2009

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