Photo: Luis (left) and Walter (right) Alvarez. Luis Alvarez was a physicist with wide ranging interests. At the University of Chicago, he took a class called Advanced Experimental Physics: Light ...

Mourners honored Luis Alvarez, a former New York City police detective who fought until his final days for the extension of health benefits for Sept. 11 first responders ...

Officials in New York renamed a local park Tuesday in honor of deceased former New York Police Det. Luis Alvarez, who became the face of struggling 9/11 first responders after became afflicted ...

Physicist Luis Walter Alvarez, a age 77, lost a long battle with can cer on September 1,1988—and the scientific community lost one of it most creative and feisty members Luie, as he was known by ...

Luis Walter Alvarez co-developed the theory that the extinction of the dinosaurs was caused by an asteroid impact (Courtesy: iStock/estt) I don’t remember the first time I heard the theory that the ...

Nassau County officials were joined Tuesday afternoon by the family of Detective Luis G. Alvarez and other NYPD officers for the unveiling.

Luis Walter Alvarez, a tall man with commanding mien, was sometimes outspokenly critical of those opposing his views. In recent interviews, for example, he had ridiculed skeptics of his theory ...

Luis Alvarez, a former U.S. Marine and bomb-squad detective for the New York Police Department, was diagnosed with a 9/11-linked cancer in 2016.

Last Tuesday, Alvarez joined Jon Stewart to demand lawmakers pass a new September 11 compensation bill. The fund administrator said he could run out of money next year and has had to cut benefits.

Luis Alvarez, 9/11 responder and advocate, mourned by family, NYPD at emotional funeral Former NYPD detective Luis Alvarez died in hospice care on Saturday.