Luis W. Alvarez (June 13, 1911, San Francisco, California – September 1, 1988) was an American physicist and inventor, who spent nearly all of his long professional career on the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley. The prestigious American Journal of Physics commented, "Luis Alvarez (1911–1988) was one of the most brilliant and productive experimental physicists of the twentieth century."[1] He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1968, and received over 40 patents, some of which proved commercially viable. Recently featured: Richard Abegg – Marie Curie – Karl Ferdinand Braun