• On June 13^th 1911 in San Francisco, California Luis Alvarez was born.
• Walter C. Alvarez the father of Luis retired his job of being the famous physician he was in the year 1946 and died 1947
• Later he attended The University of Chicago to be a chemist.
• Two in a half yrs of school, he earned his bachelors degree masters degree and his PH.D. but instead in physics
• In 1936 Alvarez was offered a job as a research assistant with a salary of 1,000 a year ,he took the job
• The radioactivity of tritium, also known as a source of thermonuclear

Energy was discovered right before World War 11 by Alvarez and a colleague.

• During the World War Two he developed the atomic bomb.
• In the year of 1945 Alvarez was responsible for having the B-29 be able to

drop the atomic bomb.

• He was also responsible for the radar developments during the war
• Was presented a trophy of the highest award givento him by president Truman
• When he got back frim the war he started designing and developing new things such as The prototype proton linear accelerator and the hydrogen bubble chamber
• On septmeber 1^st 1988 Alvarez at age 77 died of cancer