Publications authored and co-authored by L.W. Alvarez
1932
"A Simplified Method for the
Determination of the Wavelength of Light" School Science and
Mathematics
1933
"A Positively
Charged Component of Cosmic Rays" Physical
Review
1934
"Scientific Work in the Century of Progress Stratosphere Balloon"
Proceedings of the National Academy of Science
"On the Interior Magnetic Field in Iron" Physical Review
"The Energies of X-Ray Photoelectrons" Physical Review
"A Thin-Walled Geiger-Counter" Review
of Scientific Instruments
1936
"The Diffraction Grating at Grazing Incidence"
Journal
of the Optical Society of America
1937
"Removal of the Ion Beam of the
Cyclotron from the Magnetic Field" Physical
Review
"Nuclear K-Electron Capture"
Physical Review
1938
"Cloud Chamber Studies in the Cyclotron
Magnetic Field" Physical Review
"Search for Short-lived Radioelements"
Physical Review
"Neutron Yields from Deuteron Reactions
at High Energy" Physical Review
"Electron Capture and Internal Conversion
in Ga67" Physical Review
"Collimated, Variable Energy Beam of
Pure Thermal Neutrons" Physical
Review
"Capture of Orbital Electrons by Nuclei"
Physical Review
"Production of Collimated Beams of Monochromatic
Neutrons in the Temperature Range 300°-10°
K" Physical
Review
1939
"Heavily Ionizing Particles from
Uranium" Physical Review
"Scattering of Ultra-slow Neutrons in Ortho- and Para-Hydrogen" Physical Review
"Initial Performance of the 60-Inch Cyclotron of the William H. Crocker Radiation
Laboratory, University of California" Physical
Review
"He3 in Helium" Physical Review
"Helium and Hydrogen of Mass 3" Physical
Review
1940
"A Quantitative Determination of the Neutron Moment in Absolute
Nuclear Magnetons" Physical Review
"Radioactive Hydrogen" Physical Review
"Magnetic Moment of the Neutron" Physical Review
"Isomeric Silver and the Weizsacker Theory" Physical Review
"High Energy Carbon Nuclei" Physical Review
"Radioactive Hydrogen-A Correction" Physical Review
"Scattering of 20° Neutrons in Ortho- and Para- Hydrogen" Physical Review
"Spectroscopically Pure Mercury (198)" Physical Review
1941
"Recoil from K Capture" Physical Review
1942
"Microwave Linear Radiators" MIT
Radiation Laboratory Report
1946
"The Design of a Proton Linear Accelerator" Bulletin of the American Physical Society
1947
"The Measurement of Short Time Intervals" Physical Review
1948
"Properties of the 4-second Neutron Emitter of Low Z" Physical Review
1949
"N17, a Delayed Neutron Emitter" Physical Review
"Nitrogen 12" Physical Review
"A Proposed Experimental Test of the Neutrino Theory" UCRL-328
1950
"Mode Problems in Long Cavities" UCID-947
"Three New Delayed Alpha Emitters of Low Mass" Physical Review
"Relative Densities of Sun and
Moon" American Journal of Physics
"Electrical Detection of Artificially Produced Mesons" Physical Review
1951
"Energy Doubling in dc Accelerators" Rev. Sci. Instrum
1952
"Successive Diffractions by a
Concave Grating" J . Opt. Soc. Am.
1954
"Neon-18" Phys. Rev
1955
"Berkeley Proton Linear Accelerator" Review of Scientific Instruments
"The Lifetime of the tau Meson" Nuovo Cimento
"The Bubble Chamber Program at
UCRL" AEC Proposal for 72-inch
bubble chamber
"Elastic Scattering of 1.6-Mev Gamma Rays from Carbon" Physical Review
1956
"Lifetime of K Mesons" Physical Review
"Radiation Hazards" Research
Reviews
1957
"Catalysis of Nuclear Reactions by Mu Mesons" Physical Review
"Interactions of K- Mesons with Protons" Nuovo Cimento
"Excerpts from a Russian Diary" Physics
Today
"Further Excerpts from a Russian Diary" Physics Today
1958
"High-Energy Physics With Hydrogen Bubble Chambers" Proceedings of the Second U.N.
International Conference On Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy
"Liquid Hydrogen Bubble Chambers" Proceedings of the CERN Symposium
On High Energy Accelerators and Pion Physics
"Elastic Scattering of 1.6 Mev Gamma Rays from H, Li, C and Al Nuclei" Physical Review
1959
"Neutral Cascade Hyperon Event" Physical Review Letters
1960
"Hodoscope Design to Minimize Photomultiplier Use" Review of Scientific Instruments
"Polarized Nucleons as Targets in Hydrogen Chambers" UCID-1122
"The Interactions of Strange Particles" Proceedings of the Ninth
International Conference on High Energy Physics
"A Proposed Device for the Rapid Measurement of Bubble Chamber Film" Physics Note 223
"An Analogue Device for Erasing Beam Tracks from Bubble Chamber
Photographs" Physics Note 231
"Resonance in the Lambda-pi
System" Physical Review Letters
1961
"Resonance in the K-pi System" Physical Review
Letters
"K- Interactions in Hydrogen at 1.15 Bev/c" Bulletin of the American Physical Society
"The Sigma-Lambda Branching
Ratio Y*" UCRL-9675
"Evidence for a T = 0 Resonance
in the Sigma-pi System" UCRL-9686
"Study of Resonances of the System" Physical Review Letters
"Liquid Hydrogen Bubble Chambers" Experimental Cryophysics
"Evidence for a T=0 Three-Pion
Resonance" Physical Review Letters
1962
"Xi- Hyperons in the Reaction K- + p -> Xi- K+" Proceedings of
the 1962 International Conference on High-Energy Physics at CERN
"SMP-1 Scanning and Measuring Projector" UCRL-10109
"Study of Resonances in the Sigma-pi System" Proceedings of the 1962 International Conference
on High-Energy Physics at CERN
"Spin and Parity of the omega Meson" Physical Review
"Adventures in Nuclear Physics" UCRL-I0476
1963
"The 1660 MeV Y* Hyperon" Physical Review Letters
"Design of an Electromagnetic Detector for Dirac Monopoles" Physics Note 470
"A Possible Explanation of High Energy Cosmic Ray Phenomena in Terms of
Dirac Magnetic Monopoles" Physics
Note 479
1964
"Observation of a Nonstrange Meson of Mass 959 MeV" Physical Review Letters
"Electrostatic Potential of the
Earth and Moon" Physics Note 502
"Production of S= 0, -1 Resonant States in K-p Interactions
at 2.45 GeV/c" Proceedings of the XIIth International Conference on High
Energy Physics
"Study of High Energy Interactions, Using a 'Beam' of Primary Cosmic Ray
Protons" Physics Note 503
"Proposal for High Altitude Particle Physics Experiment" UCBSSL-192
"LRL 25-inch Bubble Chamber" Proceedings of the XIIth
International Conference on High Energy Physics
1965
"A Proposal to 'X-Ray' the Egyptian Pyramids to Search for Presently
Unknown Chambers" Physics Note 544
"A Pseudo Experience in Parapsychology" Science
"Parapsychology and Spontaneous Cases" Science
"A Scientist's Debt to Michelson" Case Institute of Technology
1966
"Round-Table Discussion on Bubble
Chambers" Proceedings of the 1966 International
Conference on Instrumentation for High Energy Physics
1968
"The Use of Liquid Noble Gases in
Particle Detectors with 1) High Spatial Resolution over a Large Area and 2)
High Energy Resolution as Total Absorption Counters" Physics Note 672
1969
"Recent Developments in Particle Physics" Science
"Putting the Moon Where It Belongs" Nature
"Cosmic Ray Studies With a Superconducting
Magnet in a Space Station Facility" UCBSSL
unnumbered
"The Prospect of High Spatial Resolution for Counter Experiments: A New
Particle Detector Using Electron Multiplication in Liquid Argon" 1969
Summer Study, NAL SS-154
1970
"Ernest Orlando Lawrence" National Academy of Sciences Biographical
Memoirs
"Dedication for Sulamith Goldhaber" Advances in Particle Physics
"Search for Magnetic Monopoles in the Lunar Samples of Apollo II" Proceedings of Apollo II Lunar Science Conference
"Search for Hidden Chambers in the Pyramids" Science
"Tune Without a Piper" Nature
"Superconducting Magnetic Spectrometer Experiment for HEAO" Technical Proposal, UCBSSL-374
"Particle Detectors Based on Noble
Liquids" Proceedings of the lnternational Conference on Instrumentation
for High Energy Physics
"Recent Developments in High-Resolution Noble Liquid Counters" National
Accelerator Laboratory 1970 Summer Study
"Proof of J . J. Thomson's Famous Theorem Regarding Electric and Magnetic
Charges" Physics Note 722
1971
"Search for Magnetic Monopoles in
Lunar Material" Physical Review
"Liquid-Filled Proportional Counter" Physical Review Letters
"A Magnetic Monopole Detector Utilizing Superconducting Elements" Review of Scientific Instruments
"Measurement of the Primary Cosmic Ray Nuclear Rigidity Spectra for
Individual Elements of Charge Z>2" UCBSSL HEAO Note 179
"High Precision
Charged Particle Detector using Noble Liquids" Nature
1972
"A Search for Antimatter in Primary Cosmic Rays" Nature
"Transverse/Optics I. A Thin Lens With Variable Spherical Power" Journal of the
Optical Society of America
"Forward" Adventures in
Experimental Physics
"Story of the Search for Chambers
in the Pyramids" Adventures in Experimental Physics
"A Liquid
Xenon Radioisotope Camera" 1972 Thirteenth Scintillation and Semiconductor Detectors
"A Measurement of Cosmic Ray Rigidity Spectra Above 5 GeV/c of Elements
from Hydrogen to Iron" UCBSSL unnumbered
"Search for Antimatter in Primary Cosmic Rays" Nature
"Liquid-Xenon-Filled Wire Chambers" Proceedings
of the XVI International Conference on High Energy Physics
"Reminiscences - Early History of the
Search for Solar Neutrinos" Proceedings
of Solar Neutrino Conference
1973
"Search for Magnetic Monopoles in Lunar Material Using an Electromagnetic
Detector" Physical Review
"A Signal
Generator for Ray Davis' Neutrino Detector" Physics Note 767
"High-Resolution Liquid-Filled Multi-Wire Chambers for Use in High Energy
Beams" Proceedings of the 1973 International
Conference on Instrumentation or High Energy Physics
"Liquid Xenon Filled Wire Chambers for Medical Imaging Applications" Proceedings of the Symposium on Advanced Technology Arising from
Particle Physics Research
"Voice of a Physicist, an Invited Commentary" Adventures in Experimental Physics
1974
"Berkeley: A Lab Like No Other" Bulletin of Atomic Scientists
"'Aether Drift' and the Isotropy
of the Universe. A Proposed Search for Anisotropies in the Primordial Black
Body Radiation" UCBSSL unnumbered
"Liquid Xenon Multiwire Proportional Chambers for Nuclear Medicine
Applications" LBL-3000
"A New gamma-Ray Imaging Camera"
Physics Note 748
"A Doppler-Shifted Black Body Spectrum in Small beta Approximation" Physics
Note 782
1975
"A Mechanical Analog of the Synchrotron Illustrating Phase Stability
and Two-Dimensional Focusing" American
Journal of Physics
"Evidence at the 10-18 Probability Level against the Production
of Magnetic Monopoles in Proton Interactions at 300 GeV/c" Physical Review
"Alfred Loomis. Obituary" Physics
Today
"Analysis of a Reported Magnetic
Monopole" Proceedings 1975 International
Symposium on Lepton and Photon Interactions at High Energies
1976
"A Proposed Search for Anti-iron Cosmic Rays" Astrophysics Note 328
"A Physicist Examines the Kennedy Assassination Film" American Journal of Physics
"Search for Hidden Chambers in the Pyramids" National Geographic Society Research Reports - 1968 Projects
1977
"Mass Spectroscopy With the Berkeley 88-inch Cyclotron" Bulletin of the American Physical Society
"Quarks With Unit Charge: A Search for Anomalous Hydrogen" Science
1978
"Development of Variable-Focus
Lenses and a New Refractor" Journal
of the American Optometric Association
1979
"Anomalous Iridium Levels at the Cretaceous-Tertiary at Gubbio, Italy"
Proceedings of the Symposium on Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary Events
"Experimental Evidence in Support of an Extra-Terrestrial
Trigger for the Cretaceous-Tertiary
Extinctions" Eos
"Anomalous Iridium Levels at the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary at Gubbio,
Italy: Negative Results of Tests for a Supernova Origin" Geological Society of America Abstracts
1980
"Alfred Lee Loomis (1887- 1975)" National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoirs
"Extraterrestrial Cause for the Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction" Science
"Anomalous Iridium at the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary: The Impact
Hypothesis" Eos
"Results of a Dating Attempt-Chemical
and Physical Measurements Relevant to the Cause of
the Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinctions"
Proceedings of the Symposium on Nuclear and Chemical Dating Techniques
1981
"Asteroid Extinction Hypothesis" Science
"Personal Recollections" in Professor
Ryokichi Sagane
"Distribution of Iridium and Other Elements Near the Cretaceous Tertiary Boundary
in Hole 465A: Preliminary Results" Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling
Project 847-849
"Asteroids and Dinosaurs" Proceedings of the Celebration of the 50th
Anniversary of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory – Svmposium and Banquet Speeches,
LBL- I3613
1982
"The Early Days of Accelerator Mass Spectrometry" Physics Today
"Geochemical Anomalies Near the Eocene-Oligocene and Permian-Triassic
Boundaries" Proceedings of the Conference
on Large Body Impacts and Terrestrial
Evolution: Geological, Climatological and Biological Implications
"Iridium and Other Geochemical Profiles Near the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary
in a Brazos River Section in Texas" Guidebook of Excursions and Related Papers for the Eighth International Symposium on Ostracoda
"Iridium Anomaly Approximately Synchronous with Terminal Eocene
Extinctions" Science
"Micropaleontological, Mineralogical and Chemical Analysis of K-T Boundary
Clay in the Northern Apennines" Geological
Society of America Abstracts
"New Data on the Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction" American Association for
the Advancement of Science Pub. 82-2
"Current Status
of the Impact Theory for the Terminal Cretaceous Extinction" Geological Society of America Special Paper
"Reexamination of Acoustic Evidence in the Kennedy Assassination" Science
"Major Impacts and Their Geological Consequences" Geological Society of America
1983
"Abundance Profiles of Iridium and Other Elements Near the
Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary in Hole 516F of Deep Sea Drilling Project Leg 72"
Initial Report, Deep Sea Drilling Project
"Experimental Evidence that an Asteroid Impact Led to the Extinction of
Many Species 65 Million Years Ago" Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences
"Alfred Lee Loomis-Last Great Amateur of Science" Physics Today
"Development of Radar" Letter
to the Editor and Response, Physics
Today
1984
"Spheroids at the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary Are Altered Impact
Droplets of Basaltic Composition" Geology
"Impact Theory of Mass Extinctions and the Invertebrate Fossil Record"
Science
"The Precursor of the K-T Boundary Clays at Stevns Klint, Denmark and DSDP
Hole 465A" Science
"Element Profile of Ir and Other Elements Near the K-T Boundary in Hole 5nB" Science
"The End of the Cretaceous: Sharp Boundary or Gradual Extinction?" Science
1987
"Mass Extinctions Caused by Large Bolide Impacts" Physics Today
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