INVENTORS HALL OF FAME
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Alvarez Patent No. 2,480,208 Radio Distance and Direction Indicator |
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American inventor Luis Walter Alvarez was born in San Francisco, California on June 13, 1911. He was educated at the University of Chicago, where he earned a B.S. in 1932 and a Ph.D. in physics in 1936.
From 1936 to 1938, Alvarez was an assistant physics instructor at the university. He was later an associate professor from 1938 to 1945. In addition, Alvarez was associate director of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory from 1954 to 1959 and professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley in 1945.
He later became a staff member, radiation laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and also worked at the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico from 1944 to 1945. In 1949, he invented and patented a radio distance and direction indicator, a landmark invention that earned his spot in the Hall of Fame.
His distinguished career continued for several decades and in 1968, Dr. Alvarez was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. He died on September 1, 1988.
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