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Luis Walter Alvarez, an Uncommon card
Luis Walter Alvarez was an American experimental physicist, inventor, and professor who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1968 for his discovery of resonance states in particle physics using the hydrogen bubble chamber.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 78
- DEF
- 93
- Power
- 171
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 110,000
Power 171 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
Luis Walter Alvarez quiz: 3 questions
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Find the missing word
He produced tritium using the ______ and measured its lifetime.
Answer
cyclotron. He produced tritium using the cyclotron and measured its lifetime. From the Luis Walter Alvarez article on Wikipedia.
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Answer
Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Jean-Bertrand Aristide 85 · Franco-Dutch War 82 · Luis Walter Alvarez 78 · Mahdist State 75 ATK in WikiCards.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- In 2007 the American Journal of Physics commented, "Luis Alvarez was one of the most brilliant and productive experimental physicists of the twentieth century." After receiving his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1936, Alvarez went to work for Ernest Lawrence at the Radiation Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley.
- Alvarez devised a set of experiments to observe K-electron capture in radioactive nuclei, predicted by the beta decay theory but never before observed.
- He produced tritium using the cyclotron and measured its lifetime.
Why it is Uncommon
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Text : Wikipedia, Luis Walter Alvarez (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory / Department of Energy (Very minor restoration by Ad, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
