The importance and variety of the discoveries and contributions of Luis W. Alvarez (1911-1988) are perhaps unmatched by any other 20th-century physicist. He received many awards for his work over the years, including the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physics for...

Alvarez was born in San Francisco, California, on June 13, 1911, the son of a physician at the University of California. When the senior Alvarez took a position at the Mayo Clinic, the family moved to Minnesota, where young Luis was educated. In 1928,...

Alvarez was born in San Francisco, California, on June 13, 1911. He attended the University of Chicago, where he received his bachelor's degree (1932), master's degree (1934) and doctorate (1936). Upon graduation, he joined the faculty at the...

Biographical Sketches 1911-1988 American Physicist and Engineer Luis W. Alvarez was perhaps the best-known Hispanic scientist of the twentieth century, excelling in experimental physics and engineering. In the 1940s he worked on the Manhattan Project...

American physicist Luis Alvarez proposed a controversial theory involving the possibility of a massive collision of a meteorite with the earth 65 million years ago, an event that Alvarez believed may account for the disappearance of the dinosaurs....

Luis W. Alvarez, 77, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist whose diverse contributions to science included work on the first atomic bomb, the discovery of subatomic particles and a controversial theory about the death of the dinosaurs, died of cancer Aug. 31 at his home in...

A special prosecutor appointed to investigate crimes committed during the government's dirty war against leftists in the 1960s and 1970s failed in his last-ditch efforts to bring former President Luis Echeverria to trial for the infamous Tlatelolco student massacre in Mexico City on...

Three Dominican banking executives were convicted Sunday for their roles in a 2003 financial collapse that crippled the Caribbean country's economy.The trial focused on the management and 2003 collapse of the country's largest bank, Banco Intercontinental, which prompted a costly government bailout and led to...