Luis Walter Alvarez
Luis Walter Alvarez
Born: 1911Birthplace: 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: 1988Andrew Alford | The National Inventors Hall of Fame | Edwin Armstrong |
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