Luis Walter Alvarez
Luis Walter Alvarez (June 13, 1911 – September 1, 1988) was an American experimental physicist, inventor, and professor of Spanish descent who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1968 for his discovery of resonance states in particle physics using the hydrogen bubble chamber.
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[edit]- In my considered opinion the peer review system, in which the proposals rather than the proposers are reviewed, is the greatest disaster to be visited upon the scientific community in this century
- Adventures of a Physicist (1987), p. 200. Basic Books. Quoted in Donald Braben: Scientific Freedom: The Elixir of Civilization, chapter 3.
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