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.

It was invented by Luis Alvarez and Lawrence Johnston and incorporated into the design of the Manhattan Project’s Fat Man bombs. Specifically, they were developed to precisely compress the bomb ...

Photo: Luis ... until 1978. Alvarez's colleagues sometimes called him the "prize wild idea man" because of the huge range of his activities. He did all kinds of research into the atomic nucleus ...

More than 600,000 men and women worked on the Manhattan Project nationwide, but only one of them bore witness to all three major atomic blasts ... Nobel laureate Luis Alvarez, who would become ...

Luis Alvarez devised a whole new technology for ... August 9, 1945: Nagasaki is hit by an atom bomb. Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum/EPA Those were exceptional achievements, but they don't by ...

physicist Luis W. Alvarez documented the explosion from his perch between the pilot and co-pilot in a B-29 flying near the blast. Alvarez, who worked on the bomb’s detonators, was also a ...

For most of its three-hour runtime, the atomic bomb epic can feel as if you’re reading a dense biography about J. Robert Oppenheimer at three times the normal speed. With so many scientist ...

A number of participants in the World War II-era Manhattan Project — which famously set out to build an atomic bomb ... and later Nobel laureate Luis Alvarez, after working under Alvarez ...

Published Oct. 2, 2023Updated Nov. 8, 2023 There is a memorable scene in “Oppenheimer,” the blockbuster film about the building of the atomic bomb, in which Luis Alvarez, a physicist at the ...

Luis Alvarez was a physicist with wide ranging interests ... In 1943 he was part of the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos and developed a detonating device for the atomic bomb. He was on board the ...

Photo: Luis ... until 1978. Alvarez's colleagues sometimes called him the "prize wild idea man" because of the huge range of his activities. He did all kinds of research into the atomic nucleus ...