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.

Nobel laureate physicist Luis W. Alvarez appears in only a few scenes in “Oppenheimer,” director Christopher Nolan’s Oscar-winning blockbuster about the tortured father of the atomic bomb.

Alvarez, who worked on the bomb’s detonators, was also a observer on a B-29 that flew in formation with the Enola Gay when it bombed Hiroshima in August, 1945.

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 University of California, Berkeley, is ...

The Nobel laureate physicist Luis W. Alvarez appears in only a few scenes in “Oppenheimer,” director Christopher Nolan’s Oscar-winning blockbuster about the tortured father of the atomic bomb.

The demonstration was the first time an atomic bomb was detonated and took place July 16, 1945. In the film, it is Bainbridge who acts on Oppenheimer’s order to press the button to detonate the ...

Luis Alvarez, a Manhattan Project contributor depicted in the movie “Oppenheimer,” lived in the home with his family during high school. The 3,118 square-foot Pill Hill home with five bedrooms ...

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.