Luis Alvarez

Astrophysicist and Nobel laureate

Luis Alvarez was a Mexican-American astrophysicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1968 for his work on the cosmic ray theory of the origin of the Earth's magnetic field. Alvarez was born in 1911 in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico and studied physics at the University of California, Berkeley. He worked at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and was a professor at the University of California, Berkel...