Discovering Alvarez: Selected Works of Luis W. Alvarez with Commentary by His Students and Colleagues PDF
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sr aie ny ooticeeoeerr BBi ie soar eevie NUNC COGNOSCO EX PARTE a l e =P THOMAS J. BATA LIBRARY TRENT UNIVERSITY Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2019 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/discoveringalvar0000alva Discovering Alvarez Discovering Alvarez. Selected Works of Luis W. Alvarez, with Commentary by His Students and Colleagues EDILTED BY W. Peter Trower The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637 The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London © 1987 by The University of Chicago All rights reserved. Published 1987 Printed in the United States of America 96 95 94 93 92 91 90 89 88 87 54321 Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Alvarez, Luis W., 1911— Discovering Alvarez. Includes bibliographies and index. 1. Physics. 2. Nuclear physics. I. Trower, W. Peter. II. Title. QC71.A462 1987 530 87-12766 ISBN 0-226-81304-5 Luis W. ALvarez is senior research scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and pro- fessor emeritus of physics at the University of Califor- nia, Berkeley. His autobiography, Alvarez: Adventures of a Physicist, has just been published. W. Peter Trower, professor of physics at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, also collaborated on Alvarez’s autobiography. Contents Preface ix 1 THE DIFFRACTION GRATING AT GRAZING INCIDENCE 1 Franklin Miller, Jr. “A Simplified Method for the Determination of the Wave Length of Light,’ Luis Alvarez, School Science and Mathematics 32, 89 (1932). Some Earty Days or Cosmic Rays 6 ) i H. Victor Neher “A Positively Charged Component of Cosmic Rays,” Luis Alvarez and Arthur H. Compton, Physical Review 43, 835 (1933). K-ELECTRON CAPTURE BY NUCLEI ital Emilio Segré “The Capture of Orbital Electrons by Nuclei,’ Luis W. Alvarez, Physical Review 54, 486 (1938). Isotopes OF Mass 3 25 Hans A. Bethe Discovery OF HyproGEN/HELIUM THREE 26 Robert Cornog “He in Helium,’ Luis W. Alvarez and Robert Cornog, Physical Review 56, 379 (1939); and ‘‘Helium and Hydrogen of Mass 3,’ Luis W. Alvarez and Robert Cornog, Physical Review 56, 613 (1939). THe NEUTRON MaGnetic MOMENT 30 Norman F. Ramsey “A Quantitative Determination of the Neutron Moment in Absolute Nuclear Magnetons,’’ Luis W. Alvarez and F. Bloch, Physical Review 57, 111 (1940). NEUTRON SCATTERING BY ORTHO- AND PARAHYDROGEN 45 Kenneth S. Pitzer ‘Scattering of 20° Neutrons in Ortho- and Parahydrogen,’’ Luis W. Alvarez and Kenneth S. Pitzer, Physical Review 58, 1003 (1940). Tue Mercury-198 Lamp: A New STANDARD OF LENGTH 47 Jacob H. Wiens “*Spectroscopically Pure Mercury (198),”” Jacob Wiens and Luis W. Alvarez, Physical Review 58, 1005 (1940). 8 Heavy Ions 50 Cornelius A. Tobias “High Energy Carbon Nuclei,’ Luis W. Alvarez, Physical Review 58, 192 (1940). 9 THE WAR YEARS 35 Lawrence Johnston Letter to Walter Alvarez and Collier Air Trophy Citation (1946) 10 BUILDING THE PRoTON LINEAR ACCELERATOR ie W. K. H. Panofsky “Berkeley Proton Linear Accelerator,’ Luis W. Alvarez, Hugh Bradner, Jack V. Franck, Hayden Gordon, J. Donald Gow, Lauriston C. Marshall, Frank Oppenheimer, Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky, Chaim Richman, and John R. Woodyard, Review of Scientific Instruments 26, 111 (1955). 11 THe TANDEM ACCELERATOR; WORKHORSE OF NUCLEAR PHysics 100 Peter H. Rose “Energy Doubling in de Accelerators,’ Luis W. Alvarez, Review of Scientific Instruments 22, 705 (1951). 12. THe DEVELOPMENT OF THE HyDROGEN BUBBLE CHAMBER 10S M. Lynn Stevenson Lire witn Lute 108 Robert D. Watt ‘Recent Developments in Particle Physics,” Luis W. Alvarez, The 1968 Nobel Prize Lecture, The Nobel Foundation (1969). 13, Muon Carta cysis oF Fusion J. David Jackson “Catalysis of Nuclear Reactions by p Mesons,” L. W. Alvarez, H. Bradner, F. S. Crawford, Jr., J. A. Crawford, P. Falk-Vairant, M. L. Good, J. D. Gow, A. H. Rosenfeld, F. Solmitz, M. L. Stevenson, H. K. Ticho, and R. D. Tripp, Physical Review 105, 1127 (1957). 14 My First Days IN THE ALVAREZ Group Stanley G. Wojcicki “Resonance in the Am System,’ Margaret Alston, Luis W. Alvarez, Philippe Eberhard, Myron L. Good, William Graziano, Harold K. Ticho, and Stanley G. Wojcicki, Physical Review Letters 5, 520 (1960). 15 MaGnetic Monopotes 176 Philippe H. Eberhard “Search for Magnetic Monopoles in the Lunar Sample,” Luis W. Alvarez, Philippe H. Eberhard, Ronald R. Ross, and Robert D. Watt, Science 167, 701 (1970). vi DISCOVERING ALVAREZ
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