Thu, Sep 11
|Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse
Alec Nevala-Lee, Collisions: A Physicist's Journey from Hiroshima to the Death of the Dinosaurs
From the acclaimed biographer of Buckminster Fuller, a riveting biography of the Nobel Prize–winning physicist who became the greatest scientific detective of the twentieth century. In conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Caroline Fraser.
Date, Time & Location
Sep 11, 2025, 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
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Purchase Collisions ($31.99, hardcover) online from CWB here or call the store to order (505) 988-4226.
In his riveting biography of the Nobel Prize–winning physicist Luis Alvarez, Alec Nevala-Lee reminds us how weird scientists can be: brilliant, abrasive, calculating, and adept at seeing the world in ways most of us can never imagine." — Caroline Fraser, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
To his admirers, Luis W. Alvarez was the most accomplished, inventive, and versatile experimental physicist of his generation. During World War II, he achieved major breakthroughs in radar, played a key role in the Manhattan Project, and served as the lead scientific observer at the bombing of Hiroshima. In the decades that followed, he revolutionized particle physics with the hydrogen bubble chamber, developed an innovative X-ray method to search for hidden…