Luis Walter Alvarez

thumb|Luis Walter Alvarez Luis Walter Alvarez (June 13, 1911 – September 1, 1988) was an American experimental physicist, inventor, and professor of Spanish descent who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1968 for his discovery of resonance states in particle physics using the hydrogen bubble chamber. Quotes In my considered opinion the peer review system, in which the proposals rather than the proposers are reviewed, is the greatest disaster to be visited upon the scientific community in this century Adventures of a Physicist (1987), p. 200. Basic Books. Quoted in Donald Braben: Scientific Freedom: The Elixir of Civilization, chapter 3. External links Luis W. Alvarez Category:Physicists from the United States Category:Inventors Category:Nobel laureates from the United States Category:Nobel laureates in Physics Category:National Medal of Science laureates Category:Academics from the United States Category:University of Chicago alumni Category:University of California, Berkeley faculty Category:People from San Francisco Category:Members of the American Philosophical Society Category:1911 births Category:1988 deaths Category:Deaths from disease