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Collection Summary

Collection Title:
Luis W. Alvarez papers 1932-1988, bulk 1943-1987

Collection Number:
BANC MSS 84/82 cz

Creators :
Alvarez, Luis W., 1911-1988

Extent:
Number of containers: 78 boxes, 3 cartons
Linear feet: 36.5

Repository:
The Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California, 94720-6000
Phone: (510) 642-6481
Fax: (510) 642-7589
Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu
URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/

Abstract:
The Luis W. Alvarez papers include correspondence, research files, diaries, reports, and notes documenting Professor Alvarez's accomplishments as a professor in the Department of Physics at the University of California, Berkeley, and as a research associate at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Projects documented include Alvarez's work as a member of the Manhattan Project, his studies of hyperon events in balloon-flown emulsions, his contributions to the Pyramid Project, and his research on bubble chambers. The collection also includes the draft for Alvarez's autobiography, Alvarez: Adventures of a Physicist.

Languages Represented:
Collection materials are in English

Physical Location:
Many of the Bancroft Library collections are stored offsite and advance notice may be required for use. For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.

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