Alvarez

[ al-vuh-rez ]

noun

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

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“It seems a lot of regulatory agencies have a lot of hardline positions instead of opening their ears to have conversations with the farmers that can show progress, and put money toward the health of the soil with really good results,” Alvarez said.
Farmers Want to Create San Diego’s Carbon Dumps | MacKenzie Elmer | February 3, 2021 | Voice of San Diego
“When my mom comes back, that’s when I gotta go back and do the work I missed, and the class I missed,” Alvarez said.
A steady stream of Latino students was arriving on college campuses. Then the pandemic hit. | Danielle Douglas-Gabriel, Hannah Natanson, John D. Harden | January 31, 2021 | Washington Post
The virus’ toll hasn’t changed Alvarez’s opinion that rules like the emergency orders need to be applied cautiously.
Restrictions on the South Texas Border Were Meant to Protect People From COVID-19. Then the Handcuffs Came Out. | by Vianna Davila and Ren Larson | December 19, 2020 | ProPublica
Even as the number of on-campus positive results did rise from just two positive tests campuswide on Monday to 40 on Tuesday, the outbreak within the island of football baffled Alvarez and Chryst.
Wisconsin-Nebraska football game canceled after 12 positive coronavirus tests | Chuck Culpepper | October 28, 2020 | Washington Post
“The first month of testing and practice, we had one positive, Wednesday prior to the game,” said Alvarez, the Wisconsin institution who coached the team from 1990 to 2005 and again as an interim briefly in 2012 and 2014.
Wisconsin-Nebraska football game canceled after 12 positive coronavirus tests | Chuck Culpepper | October 28, 2020 | Washington Post

"I think this all could've been prevented if they just listened to the 25,000 people who marched last week," Alvarez said.
Justice League Vigil for Slain NYPD Officers Asks Whose Life Matters | Olivia Nuzzi | December 22, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
According to Crawford, Alvarez is “focusing her entire effort publicly on Protess” to deflect attention.
Wrongly Imprisoned for 15 Years Thanks to an Innocence Project | Jacob Siegel | November 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
So (co-stars) Frankie J. Alvarez, Murray Bartlett, and I got to hang out and explore the city before we shot there.
‘Looking’ Star Jonathan Groff Talks About His Big Gay TV Show. (And Whether We Should Call It That.) | Kevin Fallon | January 16, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Student Michelle Alvarez told the Houston Chronicle that the suspect swiped her neck as he ran past her.
Another Campus Attack, This Time With a Knife | Christine Pelisek | April 9, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
But nothing was more useful than having the Alvarez Belons, the family whose story they were telling, on set.
‘The Impossible’ Star Tom Holland On His Award-Worthy Film Debut | Kevin Fallon | December 20, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
I am simply his friend, Alvarez Lazaro—his friend and his avenger!
Frank Merriwell's Pursuit | Burt L. Standish
Before the close of the year Alvarez likewise found his position untenable General Comonfort and resigned.
A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year | Edwin Emerson
More serious was a military revolution in the south led by General Alvarez.
A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year | Edwin Emerson
When near the Line they captured another vessel, belonging to Gabriel Alvarez.
Notable Voyagers | W.H.G. Kingston and Henry Frith
Lead us, Alvarez, for doubtless you are more used to these forests than are we.
Roger the Bold | F. S. Brereton

British Dictionary definitions for Alvarez

Alvarez

/ (ˈælvərɛz) /

noun

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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Scientific definitions for Alvarez

Alvarez

[ ăl′və-rĕz′ ]

See Note at iridium.

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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