Luis Walter Alvarez
American experimental physicist, inventor, and professor (1911–1988)
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Updated 2026-05-29
Particle physicist who won the 1968 Nobel Prize for spotting resonance states with a hydrogen bubble chamber. One of the 20th century's most prolific experimentalists in physics.
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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. In 2007 the American Journal of Physics commented, "Luis Alvarez was one of the most brilliant and productive experimental physicists of the twentieth century."
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