Luis Walter Alvarez
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 35 years ago |
| Date of birth | June 13,1911 |
| Zodiac sign | Gemini |
| Born | San Francisco |
| California | |
| United States | |
| Date of died | September 1,1988 |
| Died | Berkeley |
| California | |
| United States | |
| Nationality | American |
| Siblings | Gladys Alvarez Mead |
| Bernice Alvarez Brownson | |
| Robert S. Alvarez | |
| Job | Physicist |
| Inventor | |
| Educator | |
| Books | Discovering Alvarez: Selected Works of Luis W. Alvarez with Commentary by His Students and Colleagues |
| Irreversible Investment Under Interest Rate Variability: New Results | |
| Wicksellian Theory of Forest Rotation Under Interest Rate Variability | |
| Singular Stochastic Control and Optimal Stopping Theory in Mathematical Finance, Economics and Population Biology | |
| From Local Theory of Risk Aversion to an Intertemporal Theory of Risks Under Discrete Choices | |
| On the Tree-cutting Problem Under Interest Rate and Forest Value Uncertainty | |
| Valuation of Irreversible Entry Options Under Uncertainty and Taxation | |
| Tax Policy Uncertainty and Corporate Investment: A Theory of Tax-induced Investment Spurts | |
| A General Approach to the Stochastic Rotation Problem with Amenity Valuation | |
| Alvarez: Adventures of a Physicist | |
| Education | The University of Chicago |
| Spouse | Janet L. Landis |
| Geraldine Smithwick | |
| Parents | Walter C. Alvarez |
| Harriet Smyth | |
| Children | Walter Alvarez |
| Donald Alvarez | |
| Jean Alvarez | |
| Helen Alvarez | |
| Awards | Nobel Prize in Physics |
| Collier Trophy | |
| Enrico Fermi Award | |
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| ID | 571269 |
Luis Walter Alvarez Life story
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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