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Article: Luis Alvarez, Nobel-Winning Atomic Physicist, Dies
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- The Washington Post
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- September 3, 1988
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Luis W. Alvarez, 77, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist whose
diverse contributions to science included work on the first atomic
bomb, the discovery of subatomic particles and a controversial theory
about the death of the dinosaurs, died of cancer Aug. 31 at his home
in Berkeley, Calif.
Dr. Alvarez, who spent almost all of his career at the Lawrence
Berkeley Laboratory at the University of California, received the
Nobel Prize for physics in 1968 for taking the lead in developing the
liquid hydrogen "bubble chamber" and using it to identify subatomic
particles such as quarks and leptons.
Previously scientists widely believed widely held that the
fundamental components of atoms were protons, ...