Luis Alvarez, born June 13, 1911 in San Francisco, California, was an inventor, professor and a physicist, who won the Novel Prize in Physics in 1968. He worked on the Manhattan Project with Robert Oppenheimer in Los Alamos on the atomic bomb.
With his son Walter in the 1980s, Alvarez developed the theory that a huge comet is what made the dinosaurs extinct.
Alvarez passed away in September 1988 from complications from esophageal cancer.
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