Luis Alvarez won the Nobel prize in 1968. (Courtesy: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, W F Meggers Gallery of Nobel Laureates Collection, Physics Today ...

Einstein is the very model of the absent-minded professor, with his shock of white hair and basset-hound eyes and gnomic ...

Luis W. Alvarez, winner of the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physics and a member of the team that developed the atomic bomb, died Thursday in Berkeley, Calif., after a long bout with cancer. He was 77.From ...

Luis W. Alvarez, winner of the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physics who was a member of the team that developed the atomic bomb, died on Thursday in Berkeley, Calif., after a long bout with cancer. He was ...

Physicist Luis Walter Alvarez, a age 77, lost a long battle with can cer on September 1,1988—and the scientific community lost one of it most creative and feisty members Luie, as he was known by ...

‘Collisions’ details the world-altering genius of Luis Alvarez Alec Nevala-Lee’s biography revisits the life and career of the Nobel laureate physicist.

He continued to do varied work in high energy physics and in 1968, received the Nobel Prize. In 1965 Alvarez took his physics expertise on an archeological expedition.

The Manhattan Project employed hundreds of thousands of people, including at least 31 Nobel Prize winners for physics, chemistry, medicine, and peace.

The history of the winners of the Nobel Prize in physics, including Steven Chu, Aage Niels Bohr and Enrico Fermi.

A new biography of Luis Alvarez captures the details but misses the drama in the career of a scientist whose work ranged from the Manhattan Project to the death of the dinosaurs.

Lise Meitner developed the theory of nuclear fission, the process that enabled the atomic bomb. But her identity — Jewish and a woman — barred her from sharing credit for the discovery, newly ...