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Alvarez

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Al·va·rez  (lv-rz), Luis Walter 1911-1988.
American physicist. He won a 1968 Nobel Prize for his study of subatomic particles.
Alvarez [ˈælvərɛz]
n
(Biographies / Alvarez, Luis Walter (1911-1988) M, US, SCIENCE: physicist) Luis Walter. 1911-88, US physicist. He made (with Felix Bloch) the first measurement of the neutron's magnetic moment (1939). Nobel prize for physics 1968


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