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Alvarez

[al-vuh-rez]

noun

  1. Luis Walter, 1911–1988, U.S. physicist: Nobel Prize 1968.



Alvarez

/ ˈæəɛ /

noun

  1. Luis Walter. 1911–88, US physicist. He made (with Felix Bloch) the first measurement of the neutron's magnetic moment (1939). Nobel prize for physics 1968

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Alvarez

  1. American physicist who studied subatomic particles. Alvarez built a device called a hydrogen bubble chamber that made it possible to analyze the reactions occurring between atomic nuclei inside it. His observations led to the theory that protons, neutrons, and electrons are made of quarks. Alvarez won a 1968 Nobel Prize for physics for this work. With his son, geologist Walter Alvarez (born 1940), he later developed a theory that the extinction of dinosaurs was caused by climate changes resulting from a giant asteroid striking the Earth.

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At 132nd Street, Gilberto Alvarez, 32, general manager at Denny’s, said he was expecting a boost in sales recently after another diner in the area burned down.

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The Netflix reboot, which recast the Romanos as the Cuban American Alvarez family and shifted the action from Indianapolis to L.A., was nominated for each of its four seasons and won two, as well as a special Television Academy Honor.

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Released in February, and rebranded an “assessment” because the Alvarez & Marsal firm that conducted it was not a certified public accountant, it found that the city’s homelessness programs were disjointed and lacked adequate data systems and financial controls, leaving them vulnerable to waste and fraud.

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Laura Frost, a director at Alvarez & Marsal, testified that much of the data the firm requested from the city was missing or never responded to, so the firm’s analysts assumed it didn’t exist.

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But in a narrow, paved street of the Gothic quarter, right in the tourist heart of Barcelona, Joan Alvarez is fighting to hold on to the flat his family have rented for 25 years, and at a price he can afford.

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