No es matemático, sino físico, ni español, pero al menos es nieto de españoles:
Hizo contribuciones importantes a la física de partículas y participó en el proyecton Manhattan (además viaja en un avion detrás del Enola lgtb para hacer mediciones de la bomba de Hiroshima)
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Luis Walter Alvarez was born into a
Roman Catholic family in San Francisco on June 13, 1911, the second child and oldest son of
Walter C. Alvarez, a physician, and his wife Harriet née Smyth, and a grandson of
Luis F. Álvarez, a Spanish physician, born in Asturias, Spain, who lived in Cuba for a while and finally settled in the United States, who found a better method for diagnosing
macular leprosy. He had an older sister, Gladys, a younger brother, Bob, and a younger sister, Bernice.
[3] His aunt,
Mabel Alvarez, was a California artist specializing in
oil painting.
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