Why Is Luis Walter Alvarez Important

Luis Walter Alvarez Luis Walter Alvarez was a very important person when he was alive. Luis Walter Alvarez was one of the first Spanish person to change history. Many of the things we use today were invented by him such as microwaves. Also bombing systems, and blind landing systems. Luis made it possible for us to do certain things if it wasn’t for him people who fight for their country would not be able to protect themselves. Luis Walter Alvarez was born June 3, 1911 he was born in San Francisco, California. He grew up without his mother. He was raised by his father who was a single dad. Luis died at the age of 77 on September 1, 1988 Luis had died of cancer. Before that he had a son that he named Walter Alvarez. Luis Alvarez had two wives’ his first wife was Geraldine Smithwick they were married for twenty one years (1936-1957). One year later he married his second wife Janet L. Landis they were married for thirty years (1958-1988).
Luis showed a love for tools, machines and technology. In 1940, as a result of World War II, Alvarez and a group of scientists built a radar system to help guide airplanes through darkness. In this system, a radio signal bounces off a lost plane and back to the sender of the signal, who then guides the plane safely to the ground. Alvarez worked on a secret project for the government. After, Alvarez returned to Berkeley where he worked once again at the Radiation Laboratory. Here he built a hydrogen bubble chamber, with which he discovered that atoms and other particles when travelling through liquid hydrogen leave a track of bubbles. Using bubble chambers Alvarez's team discovered many new atomic