Luis Alvarez
- Born: January 13, 1911 (San Francisco, California)
- Died: September 1, 1988 (Berkeley, California)
Education
- 1932: BS, University of Chicago
- 1934: MS, University of Chicago
- 1936: PhD, University of Chicago
Major Positions
- 1936–1938: University of California, Berkeley, Assistant in Physics
- 1938–1945: University of California, Berkeley, Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of Physics
- 1945–1978: University of California, Berkeley, Professor of Physics
- 1978–1988: University of California, Berkeley, Emeritus Professor of Physics
Other Positions
- 1940–1943: MIT Radiation Laboratory, Staff Member
- 1943–1944: Manhattan Project, Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory, Researcher
- 1944–1945: Manhattan Project, Los Alamos Laboratory, Leader, Electronic Detonators Group
- 1945–1945: Manhattan Project, Tinian Island, Co-Leader, Observation Team
- 1954–1959: University of California, Berkeley, Associate Director, Radiation Laboratory
- 1969–1969: American Physical Society, President
- 1973–1973: President's Science Advisory Committee (PSAC), Member
- 1976–1978: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Associate Director
Selected Awards and Honors
- 1947: National Academy of Sciences, Member
- 1963: National Medal of Science
- 1968: Nobel Prize in Physics
- 1987: United States Department of Energy, Enrico Fermi Award
Archival Resources
Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California
Online Finding Aid
Oral History Interviews
- 1967: Available Online
Resources on the Web
Published Resources
W. Peter Trower, "Luis Walter Alvarez: 1911-1988", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences
Luis W. Alvarez, "Berkeley: A Lab Like No Other," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists April (1974): 18-23.
Luis W. Alvarez, Alvarez: Adventures of a Physicist (New York: Basic Books, 1987)
Luis W. Alvarez, "The Hydrogen Bubble Chamber and the Strange Resonances," in Pions to Quarks: Particle Physics in the 1950s, ed. Laurie M. Brown, Max Dresden, and Lillian Hoddeson (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press: 1989), 299-306
