Talk:Luis Walter Alvarez

GA Review

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Reviewer: Chiswick Chap (talk · contribs) 20:28, 22 March 2013 (UTC)

Rate	Attribute	Review Comment
1. Well-written:
	1a. the prose is clear, concise, and understandable to an appropriately broad audience; spelling and grammar are correct.	Have done a little copy-editing.
	1b. it complies with the Manual of Style guidelines for lead sections, layout, words to watch, fiction, and list incorporation.	OK. The details of marriage and divorce are not ideally placed in "Early work" but it's not a major issue. I've no idea what one is to do with line spacing when there are nuclide superscripts all over the place, guess it's untidy but unavoidable given the limitations of wikitext in browsers, unless one were to insist on writing them as "Helium-3" when in text, and putting the rest in images (or whatever) as equations. That would chime with rules about writing % as "percent", by the way.
2. Verifiable with no original research:
	2a. it contains a list of all references (sources of information), presented in accordance with the layout style guideline.	OK
	2b. reliable sources are cited inline. All content that could reasonably be challenged, except for plot summaries and that which summarizes cited content elsewhere in the article, must be cited no later than the end of the paragraph (or line if the content is not in prose).	Properly cited
	2c. it contains no original research.	OK
3. Broad in its coverage:
	3a. it addresses the main aspects of the topic.	Yes it does
	3b. it stays focused on the topic without going into unnecessary detail (see summary style).	OK
	4. Neutral: it represents viewpoints fairly and without editorial bias, giving due weight to each.	Have removed a few POV words.
	5. Stable: it does not change significantly from day to day because of an ongoing edit war or content dispute.	Not a problem.
6. Illustrated, if possible, by media such as images, video, or audio:
	6a. media are tagged with their copyright statuses, and valid non-free use rationales are provided for non-free content.	OK. Nobel image is tagged but lacks a description (not a showstopper)
	6b. media are relevant to the topic, and have suitable captions.	OK
	7. Overall assessment.	A readable, not over-technical summary of a great physicist. Nice work.

Orphaned references in Luis Walter Alvarez

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Luis Walter Alvarez's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "harv":

• From List of Bohemian Club members: Trower, W. P. (2009). Luis Walter Alvarez 1911–1988 (PDF). Biographical Memoirs. National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved March 21, 2013.
• From James Watson: "Chairman of the Bored", Steven Shapin, Harvard Magazine, January–February 2008

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 21:13, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

Health

no talk of cancer from smoking or radiation? constant in many wikipedia aticles is absent info that coud lsave lives if publizied Juror1 (talk) 15:33, 6 August 2017 (UTC)

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Lead image

I feel like one should have full disclosure, so if you say something in an edit summary, and it's then dealt with, you say so.

So, I said the 1961 image and former lead had copyright problems. And it did: Pretty much everything said about the reasons for it being out of copyright were wrong. (see commons:Commons:Deletion requests/File:Luis Walter Alvarez 1961.jpg), but, as it happens, it's still out of copyright for completely different reasons (see previous link, or updated file description page for new reasoning).

Very briefly: It was being treated as an image created by the Nobel Prize Foundation in Sweden, despite predating his Nobel Prize by six years, and the argument for it being out of copyright was based on Swedish law. It was actually created at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California by Donald Cooksey - which, as you'd imagine, Swedish law is irrelevant to - but coincidentally, we had proof it was published without notice, which, at the time it was created, was a statuatory reason for things to go out of copyright in the U.S., so it's out of copyright after all but for a completely different reason. Which is a mess of a situation, but I've updated everything to the accurate information.

Now I think the new lead image is still sharper, more interesting, and a better choice, so I don't propose we change back to the previous image. Here's the images side by side:

• 
  Source of old lead image
• 
  Old lead image as cropped
• 
  New lead image

I'd say the third one is a clear improvement on the others, so I'd say let's keep it as the lead, and maybe put one or the other of the old lead images further down in the article. But I don't want to mislead anyone, hence the full disclosure. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.6% of all FPs.} 08:20, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

I prefer the source old lead image, hard to distinguish this guy from Michael Keaton in the new image. LegalSmeagolian (talk) 14:45, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

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Luis Walter Alvarez (1911–1988) was an American experimental physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1968 for his discovery of resonance states in particle physics using the hydrogen bubble chamber. After receiving his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1936, Alvarez went to work for Ernest Lawrence at the Radiation Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley. He joined MIT Radiation Laboratory in 1940, where he contributed to a number of World War II radar projects and worked as a test pilot, before joining Robert Oppenheimer on the Manhattan Project in 1943. He moved back to Berkeley as a full professor after the war, going on to use his knowledge in work on improving particle accelerators. This 1969 photograph shows Alvarez with a magnetic monopole detector at Berkeley.

Photograph credit: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory / Department of Energy

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