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Luis Walter Alvarez
This article is about the American physicist. For his grandfather, the physician, see Luis F. Alvarez.
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For other people of the same name, see Luis Álvarez (disambiguation).
Luis Walter Alvarez (June 13, – September 1, ) was an Americanexperimental physicist, inventor, and professor who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in The American Journal of Physics commented, "Luis Alvarez was one of the most brilliant and productive experimental physicists of the twentieth century."[1]
After receiving his PhD from the University of Chicago in , Alvarez went to work for Ernest Lawrence at the Radiation Laboratory at the University of California in Berkeley.
Alvarez devised a set of experiments to observe K-electron capture in radioactive nuclei, predicted by the beta decay theory but never before observed. He produced tritium using the cyclotron and measured its lifetime. In collaboration with Felix Bloch, he measured the magnetic moment of the neutron.