Photo: Luis (left) and Walter (right) Alvarez. Luis Alvarez was a physicist with wide ranging interests. At the University of Chicago, he took a class called Advanced Experimental Physics ...

one of the retired first responders who accompanied him was Luis Alvarez, a former bomb-squad detective for the New York Police Department. Alvarez, 53, told lawmakers that he had gone through 68 ...

In 1980 physicist Luis Alvarez and his son, geologist Walter Alvarez, both of the University of California, were working together on a geology expedition in Italy. They accidentally discovered a ...

When Luis Alvarez was about 11 years old, he accidentally lit a tree on fire while heating up pool chemicals. His interest in science persisted after that mishap, and he earned a master’s in chemical ...