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Created page with "== Early Life and Education == Luis Walter Alvarez was born on June 13, 1911, in San Francisco, California. He was the second child of Walter C. Alvarez, a physician, and his wife Harriet née Smyth. He attended Madison School in San Francisco from 1918 to 1924, and then San Francisco Polytechnic High School. In 1926, at the age of 15, he entered the University of Chicago, from which he received his Bachelor of Science degree in Physics in 1932. He then moved to the Univ..."