Collisions: A Physicist's Journey from Hiroshima to the Death of the Dinosaurs (2025) from award-winning biographer Alec Nevala-Lee explores the extraordinary life and career of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Luis W. Alvarez from his role in the Manhattan Project to his study of the extinction of the dinosaurs from an asteroid impact. Along the way, Dr. Alvarez spent nearly a decade exploring crucial photographic, ballistics and acoustics evidence in the Kennedy assassination, helping to shape how we understand important aspects of the case, including the Zapruder film, the single bullet theory and the controversial Dallas police Dictabelt recording. Author Nevala-Lee participated in an oral history with the Museum in 2025 and will join us for a public program on Saturday, November 21.
Pub. Date 6/2026 Pages 352