Collisions: Luis W. Alvarez at the Intersection of Physics, History, and Catastrophe

From Santa Fe Institute

Alec Nevala-Lee, Author In this seminar, biographer Alec Nevala-Lee invites us into the brilliant and tumultuous mind of Luis W. Alvarez the physicist who played a key role in the Manhattan Project, served as the lead scientific observer at the bombing of Hiroshima, and won the Nobel Prize for the development of the hydrogen bubble chamber. As a self-styled "scientific detective," Alvarez investigated topics ranging from the Kennedy assassination to the Pyramids of Giza, teaming up with his s...