1911 - 1988
Luis Walter Alvarez (June 13, 1911 – September 1, 1988) was an American experimental physicist, inventor, and professor who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1968 for his discovery of resonance states in particle physics using the hydrogen bubble chamber. In 2007 the American Journal of Physics commented, "Luis Alvarez was one of the most brilliant and productive experimental physicists of the twentieth century." After receiving his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1936, Alvarez went to work for Ernest Lawrence at the Radiation Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley. Alvarez devised a set of experiments to observe K-electron capture in radioactive nuclei, predicted by the beta decay theory but never before observed. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Luis Walter Alvarez has received more than 1,211,403 page views. His biography is available in 67 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 66 in 2019). Luis Walter Alvarez is the 354th most popular physicist (down from 316th in 2019), the 2,339th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,865th in 2019) and the 71st most popular American Physicist.
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Among physicists, Luis Walter Alvarez ranks 354 out of 717. Before him are Henri Pitot, George Johnstone Stoney, Léon Brillouin, Galileo Ferraris, Hans Kramers, and William Sturgeon. After him are Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Walter H. Schottky, Robert B. Laughlin, Abram Ioffe, Oskar Klein, and Paul Drude.
1695 - 1771
HPI: 56.40
Rank: 348
1826 - 1911
HPI: 56.37
Rank: 349
1889 - 1969
HPI: 56.31
Rank: 350
1847 - 1897
HPI: 56.24
Rank: 351
1894 - 1952
HPI: 56.22
Rank: 352
1783 - 1850
HPI: 56.19
Rank: 353
1911 - 1988
HPI: 56.09
Rank: 354
1711 - 1753
HPI: 56.07
Rank: 355
1886 - 1976
HPI: 56.06
Rank: 356
1950 - Present
HPI: 56.05
Rank: 357
1880 - 1960
HPI: 56.04
Rank: 358
1894 - 1977
HPI: 55.99
Rank: 359
1863 - 1906
HPI: 55.97
Rank: 360
Among people born in 1911, Luis Walter Alvarez ranks 88. Before him are Lee J. Cobb, Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, Shiing-Shen Chern, Andor Lilienthal, Viktor Barna, and David Seymour. After him are André Claveau, Józef Cyrankiewicz, Roberto Matta, Maureen O'Sullivan, André Leroi-Gourhan, and Hans Woellke. Among people deceased in 1988, Luis Walter Alvarez ranks 61. Before him are Branko Zebec, Renato Salvatori, René Char, Antonín Puč, Giacinto Scelsi, and Vladimír Menšík. After him are Henry Murray, George Uhlenbeck, Ilona Elek, Raymond Dart, Antal Doráti, and Lev Pontryagin.
1911 - 1976
HPI: 56.55
Rank: 82
1911 - 1979
HPI: 56.46
Rank: 83
1911 - 2004
HPI: 56.32
Rank: 84
1911 - 2010
HPI: 56.22
Rank: 85
1911 - 1972
HPI: 56.21
Rank: 86
1911 - 1956
HPI: 56.15
Rank: 87
1911 - 1988
HPI: 56.09
Rank: 88
1911 - 2003
HPI: 55.85
Rank: 89
1911 - 1989
HPI: 55.76
Rank: 90
1911 - 2002
HPI: 55.74
Rank: 91
1911 - 1998
HPI: 55.57
Rank: 92
1911 - 1986
HPI: 55.56
Rank: 93
1911 - 1943
HPI: 55.43
Rank: 94
1929 - 1988
HPI: 57.14
Rank: 55
1933 - 1988
HPI: 56.94
Rank: 56
1907 - 1988
HPI: 56.92
Rank: 57
1907 - 1988
HPI: 56.89
Rank: 58
1905 - 1988
HPI: 56.67
Rank: 59
1929 - 1988
HPI: 56.54
Rank: 60
1911 - 1988
HPI: 56.09
Rank: 61
1893 - 1988
HPI: 55.93
Rank: 62
1900 - 1988
HPI: 55.81
Rank: 63
1907 - 1988
HPI: 55.68
Rank: 64
1893 - 1988
HPI: 55.43
Rank: 65
1906 - 1988
HPI: 55.18
Rank: 66
1908 - 1988
HPI: 55.12
Rank: 67
Among people born in United States, Luis Walter Alvarez ranks 2,339 out of 18,182. Before him are Kamehameha II (1797), Barbara Liskov (1939), Mervyn LeRoy (1900), Alice Ball (1892), Elizabeth McGovern (1961), and Ray Harryhausen (1920). After him are William Joyce (1906), Don S. Davis (1942), Eddie Eagan (1897), Chris Noth (1954), Cornell Woolrich (1903), and Katy Perry (1984).
1797 - 1824
HPI: 56.13
Rank: 2,333
1939 - Present
HPI: 56.12
Rank: 2,334
1900 - 1987
HPI: 56.12
Rank: 2,335
1892 - 1916
HPI: 56.10
Rank: 2,336
1961 - Present
HPI: 56.10
Rank: 2,337
1920 - 2013
HPI: 56.10
Rank: 2,338
1911 - 1988
HPI: 56.09
Rank: 2,339
1906 - 1946
HPI: 56.09
Rank: 2,340
1942 - 2008
HPI: 56.09
Rank: 2,341
1897 - 1967
HPI: 56.09
Rank: 2,342
1954 - Present
HPI: 56.09
Rank: 2,343
1903 - 1968
HPI: 56.08
Rank: 2,344
1984 - Present
HPI: 56.08
Rank: 2,345
Among physicists born in United States, Luis Walter Alvarez ranks 71. Before him are Nathan Rosen (1909), John Mauchly (1907), Frank Wilczek (1951), Karl Guthe Jansky (1905), Walter A. Shewhart (1891), and Edward Witten (1951). After him are Robert B. Laughlin (1950), Nick Holonyak (1928), Edwin Hall (1855), Ralph Asher Alpher (1921), Robert J. Van de Graaff (1901), and Carl Wieman (1951).
1909 - 1995
HPI: 58.03
Rank: 65
1907 - 1980
HPI: 57.77
Rank: 66
1951 - Present
HPI: 57.60
Rank: 67
1905 - 1950
HPI: 56.85
Rank: 68
1891 - 1967
HPI: 56.74
Rank: 69
1951 - Present
HPI: 56.57
Rank: 70
1911 - 1988
HPI: 56.09
Rank: 71
1950 - Present
HPI: 56.05
Rank: 72
1928 - 2022
HPI: 55.93
Rank: 73
1855 - 1938
HPI: 55.71
Rank: 74
1921 - 2007
HPI: 55.70
Rank: 75
1901 - 1967
HPI: 55.67
Rank: 76
1951 - Present
HPI: 55.64
Rank: 77