| Luis W. Alvarez  AKA Luis Walter Alvarez
Born: 13-Jun-1911
Birthplace: San Francisco, CA
Died: 1-Sep-1988
Location of death: Berkeley, CA
Cause of death: Cancer - unspecified
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Particle accelerator pioneer Father: Dr. Walter Clement Alvarez (UCSF medical researcher)
Mother: Harriet Skidmore Smythe
Wife: Geraldine Smithwick (m. 1936, div.)
Son: Walter (geologist)
Daughter: Jean
Wife: Janet L. Landis (m. 1958)
Son: Donald
Daughter: Helen
High School: Polytechnic High School
High School: Rochester High School, Rochester, MN
University: BS, University of Chicago (1932)
University: MS, University of Chicago (1934)
University: PhD, University of Chicago (1936)
Professor: University of California at Berkeley (1936-78)
Professor: MIT (1940-43)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Philosophical Society
American Physical Society President, 1969
JASON
National Academy of Sciences
Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society
Phi Beta Kappa Society
Nobel Prize for Physics 1968
National Medal of Science 1964
National Inventors Hall of Fame 1978
Enrico Fermi Award 1987
Manhattan Project 1944-45
Cuban Ancestry
Spanish Ancestry
Author of books:
Alvarez: Adventures of a Physicist (1987, memoir)
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