His father was Eugenio Fernández, who was in charge of the business and palace affairs in Madrid of don Francisco de Paula, one of the royal princes.
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Two of Álvarez's children would rise to national prominence: Mabel Alvarez became a well-known artist and oil painter, and Walter C. Alvarez became a noted physician.
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In 1895, Álvarez resigned his position in Waialua to prepare himself for work as Superintendent of a new experimental hospital for the treatment of leprosy which was to be established in Kalihi, a suburb of Honolulu.
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His grandson and great-grandson have also become well known: Luis Walter Alvarez, a physicist and Nobel Prize winner; and Walter Alvarez, Professor of Geology at the University of California, Berkeley.
Her father, Luis F. Alvarez, a physician, was involved with the leprosy research begun by the legendary Father Damien.
His grandfather was the famed physician Walter C. Alvarez and his great-grandfather, Spanish-born Luis F. Alvarez, worked as a doctor in Hawaii and developed a method for the better diagnosis of macular leprosy.
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Arturo G. Alvarez started his career as a performer in 1994 when he was cast in Grease (musical) at the Hidalgo Theater in Mexico City by Julissa, the producer and adaptor of the musical.
Alfred "Chico" Alvarez (1920–1992), Canadian trumpeter and session musician with Stan Kenton
Workers for the Iowa Beef Processors, Inc. (IBP, Inc.), now known as Tyson Foods, Inc., filed a class-action lawsuit requesting reparations for unpaid wages.
Her brother, Walter C. Alvarez, would later distinguish himself as a physician and author.
Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain, a cause of action must be universally recognized by the law of nations as a prohibited norm in order to be actionable
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United States v. Alvarez-Machain, 504 U.S. 655 (1992), decision by the United States Supreme Court
Despite vigorous protests from the Mexican government, Álvarez was tried in United States District Court in Los Angeles; the trial, in which his defense focused intensely on the legality of the arrest, resulted in an acquittal.
Alvarez and his father Luis W. Alvarez are most widely known for their discovery (with Frank Asaro and Helen Michel) that a clay layer occurring right at the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) boundary was highly enriched in the element iridium.
:For his grandson, the American geology professor, see Walter Alvarez.
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Alvarez was married to the former Harriet Skidmore Smythe and the couple had four children: Gladys, Luis, Robert and Bernice.