Photo: Luis ... until 1978. 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 ...

It was invented by Luis Alvarez and Lawrence Johnston and incorporated into the design of the Manhattan Project’s Fat Man bombs. Specifically, they were developed to precisely compress the bomb ...

More than 600,000 men and women worked on the Manhattan Project nationwide, but only one of them bore witness to all three major atomic blasts ... Nobel laureate Luis Alvarez, who would become ...

For most of its three-hour runtime, the atomic bomb epic can feel as if you’re reading a dense biography about J. Robert Oppenheimer at three times the normal speed. With so many scientist ...

physicist Luis W. Alvarez documented the explosion from his perch between the pilot and co-pilot in a B-29 flying near the blast. Alvarez, who worked on the bomb’s detonators, was also a ...

The always-interesting Letters of Note blog has uncovered a chilling hidden page from history: A letter dropped into Japan one minute before the second atomic bomb, warning a Japanese scientist to ...

Published Oct. 2, 2023Updated Nov. 8, 2023 There is a memorable scene in “Oppenheimer,” the blockbuster film about the building of the atomic bomb, in which Luis Alvarez, a physicist at the ...

The funeral ceremony for Detective Luis ... the bomb suit on anymore and run around and do my job. As long as God gives me the time, I'll be here, advocating, because guys are dying now," Alvarez ...

Photo: Luis ... until 1978. 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 ...

Luis Alvarez was a physicist with wide ranging interests ... In 1943 he was part of the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos and developed a detonating device for the atomic bomb. He was on board the ...