American experimental physicist, inventor, and professor (1911–1988). Luis Walter Alvarez was born on 13 June 1911 in what is now the United States. Luis Walter Alvarez is remembered as a physicist, nuclear physicist and university teacher, a citizen of the United States. Positions held included university teacher and president.
Before and after
- 26 March 1911Birth of Tennessee Williams
- 30 March 1911Founding of Tsinghua University
- 18 May 1911Death of Gustav Mahler
- 4 June 1911Construction of Altare della Patria
- 13 June 1911Birth of Luis Walter Alvarez
- 16 June 1911Founding of IBM
- 30 June 1911Birth of Czesław Miłosz
- 5 July 1911Birth of Georges Pompidou
- 16 July 1911Birth of Ginger Rogers
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- 1789Discovery of uranium
- 1807Discovery of potassium
- 30 June 1808Discovery of boron
- 1810Discovery of fluorine
- 1823Discovery of silicon
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