Luis Walter Alvarez
Born: 1911 Birthplace: San Francisco, Calif. Radio distance and direction indicator— Alvarez was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1968. He helped design a ground-controlled radar system for aircraft landings and with his son developed the meteorite theory of dinosaur extinction. (1978)
Died: 1988 Information Please® Database, © 2007 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.
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