Alvarez's colleagues sometimes called him the "prize wild idea man" because of the huge range of his activities. He did all kinds of research into the atomic nucleus, light, electrons, radar, and so forth. In he was part of the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos and developed a detonating device for the atomic bomb. He was on board the bomber Enola Gay when it dropped the bomb on Hiroshima.
Captain, Alsos Mission. Esther Turovlin. Secretary, Chicago, IL. Shirley Lewallen. Typist, Hanford, WA. He also gave an idea known as Alvarez Hypothesis stating that the dinosaurs died out largely as a result of a massive asteroid impact about 65 million years ago. He also developed the liquid hydrogen bubble chamber in which subatomic particles and their reactions are detected.
During World War II, he designed a landing system for aircraft and a radar system for locating planes. Later, he helped develop the hydrogen bubble chamber, used to detect subatomic particles. This research led to the discovery of over 70 elementary particles and resulted in a major revision of nuclear theories.
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