Post by ClutterfreakIf you don't have time to read his entire autobiography, then
at least you could read perhaps a tiny little nutshell of what
he did, mentioned in his obituaries. This one-page one alone
The two links I gave above for the two one page obituaries of
Alvarez takes you to "FileDropper" page where I uploaded the two
pdfs. Usual settings of browsers will give you a stern warning
before going to FileDropper site claiming "malicious" activity
there. They probably mean to say stuff that should be free but
they want money for them anyway were once uploaded there.
I don't know whether the two small pdf files I uploaded are fully
legal to see or not. I found them on European sites in other
languages, not the English sites.
There's nothing much to be found in English language sites
anymore. Everything is owned like it is their fucking inheritance
or something. Pretty soon they'll ask for money for the air you
breath! Water that comes from sky is already owned. You have to
pay for it. It is time for air now.
Anyway, choice is yours if you want to download them. And yes
there is absolutely no virus or "malicious" content at least
about the two links I gave.
I also checked google groups and saw that my two posts were
deleted by someone or some bot. Probably because of the links to
FileDropper. So if you still are hellbent on getting those two
pdfs (they are easiest way to sum his works up) you have to use a
dedicated newsreader with a free news server (like the one I use)
to see my posts and download the files. Via google groups you'd
see neither of my two posts nor my links to even be aware of
their existence :)
These brief obituaries are written for scientists, not public.
That's why I wanted you to see them cause they're of higher
quality than what you see in newspapers or internet.
And now that I'm here, I should perhaps mention that you have a
third choice also (the other two being reading his autobiography
and reading his obituaries):
In the years around his death on 1988 I paid close attention to
book reviews that appeared on Physics Today magazine. They
carried top quality physics news and especially quality reviews,
better than anything you'd ever see elsewhere in the business
world. Subscription to this magazine was free for graduate
students in those years (I think it was part of the tuition). I
remember reading the review of Alvarez's autobiography that had
come out in 1987. The book I talked about above earlier in this
blog, and how it had huge pieces of it missing by the works of
other authorities than Alvarez.
Well, now that I remembered that, I remember there was yet
another book that came out and was reviewed in that magazine in
the same period of time. I don't remember the title and didn't
purchase it, but I remember the type of content it had and what
the purpose of publishing it was.
The book was written and/or edited by people other than Alvarez
but these people either were scientists themselves or were
physicists who knew him personally very well. I have a feeling
that Alvarez allowed it to get published as a needed supplement
to his autobiography that had been published around the same
time. He was probably very unhappy about the form his
autobiography had taken by the time it got out and wanted to add
more stuff to the story, especially for the scientists.
Anyway, I purchased the autobiography and read most of it but
didn't purchase the other one written by other scientists about
him. And now I have none :) Hehe :-) But they exist, and if you
are interested, you should be able to purchase them. Fat chance
you could get a free PDF of any of this.
A lot of people were thrown off from Alvarez' works only because
of his name, cause everybody outside physics community who didn't
know him would think he was just some Mexican or "Chicano" and
wouldn't take whoever he was or said or whatever others thought
of him seriously. Hahahahah :-) You'd wonder if this fact harmed
him in any way or helped him in MANY ways :-)
It is good to stay hidden from oceans of people who don't know
how stupid they are and think high of themselves :) It is indeed
a blessing. It is the equivalent of.. how do you say it? "Hiding
in plain sight!" :-)
So I think Alvarez was lucky to have such surname. And no, he was
from best that Americans could ever be, and was American inside
out, by birth and by culture, and by genes and by upbringings,
and certainly by looks as well. There was nothing "Chicano" about
him from begin to end :)
Hahaahahhah :-)
I placed that word in quotation marks cause I remember seeing a
sci.physics post a few years back where the poster was referring
to his 1980 extraordinary paper and important predictions in
there with derision and ridiculing its two "Chicano" authors :)
Hehe :) It was before the pandemic and I was super busy at work
so didn't get a chance to sit down to put some reality into that
funny guy. And now I've said enough anyway, no need to want to
know who he was. Probably Whodat! :-( Or perhaps Arindam under
his earlier handle. Anyway, someone who must now be inside
sci.physics cemetery _for_sure_ :)
Hah.
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