Alec Nevala-Lee on Luis Alvarez
Podcast: The Orthogonal BetEpisode: Alec Nevala-Lee on Luis AlvarezPub date: 2025-11-05Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn this episode, Samuel Arbesman speaks again with Alec Nevala-Lee. Arbesman previously hosted Nevala-Lee to discuss his biography of Buckminster Fuller; this time, Nevala-Lee returns to talk about his new book, Collisions, a biography of Nobel Prize–winning physicist Luis Alvarez. Alvarez’s career ranged across particle physics, the Manhattan Project, the investigation of the JFK assassination, and—alongside his…
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