Asturian-American Migration Forum

Although I can find no information on his parents, California-born Luis Walter Alvarez, was the son of Asturian immigrants.

A few years back the Asturian Savings & Loan (Caja de Ahorros de Asturias - Cajastur) hosted an extraordinary exhibition in their pavillion of Gijón's "Feria de Muestras" on Luis and Robert Alvarez.

http://nobelprize.org/physics/laureates ... z-bio.html

Alvarez, Luis W. “Experimental Evidence that an Asteroid Impact Led to the Extinction of Many Species 65 million Years Ago.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 80 (1982): 627-42.
Alvarez, Luis W. Alvarez: Adventures of a Physicist. 1987.
Alvarez, L. W., W. Alvarez, F. Asaro and H. V. Michel. “Extraterrestrial Cause for the Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction.” Science 208 (1980): 1095-1106.
Alvarez, W., and R. A. Muller. “Evidence from Crater Ages for Periodic Impacts on the Earth.” Nature 308 (1984): 718-20.
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Aunque no encuentro información sobre sus padres en Internet, el premio Nobel californiano de nacimiento, Luis W. Alvarez, era hijo de emigrantes asturianos.

Hace unos años la Caja de Ahorros presentó una exposición extraordinaria sobre "los Alvarez" en su pabellón de la Feria de Muestras de Gijón.

Thanks Terechu. I have been well aware of the Alvarez contribution to evolutionary science for a long time (and teach it in my classes), but I had no idea that there was an Asturianu involvement.

Walter Alvarez visits Asturias again:

http://www.lne.es/secciones/noticia.jsp ... mplar=1049

Hpla,
A propósito del tema hay este enlace de la Fundación Wenceslao Roces , comentando el libro de Carlos Rodríguez publicado por Caja Asturias.
http://www.wenceslaoroces.org/res/alv.htm
Salud y que no decaiga
Mr Reivaj