Luis Walter Alvarez’s eclectic career
NEWS-FINANCE -QUOTE-EDUCATIONAL AND MOTIVATIONAL Luis Walter Alvarez’s career was marked by two explosions. The first was one the physicist enabled: a plutonium bomb, whose design he oversaw, destroyed the Japanese city of Nagasaki in August 1945. The second was one he theorised: the terrestrial impact 65m years ago of an asteroid sufficiently powerful to drive the dinosaurs to extinction. It…











