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Alvarez
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Alvarez
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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Salomon, Portrait of a New Christian: Fernao Alvares Melo (1569-1632) (Paris, 1982), 27.
Claude Alvares and Gita Chadha, for instance, decry the hegemony of modern science but instead of looking at the history of cultural encounters behind this dominance, they suggest the need for a rediscovery of an "indigenous science" that would lie outside of modern Western science.
--Leticia Figueiredo Alvares da Silva Campos, a Brazilian student who rode out Katrina in the New Orleans Superdome (BBC Brasil)
 
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