Walter Alvarez is an American professor in the Earth and Planetary Science department at the University of California, Berkeley. Working with his father, the Nobel-laureate physicist Luis Alvarez, he was a lead researcher on the hypothesis that an asteroid impact caused the extinction of the dinosaurs, a theory built on their discovery of an iridium-rich layer at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary.
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BirthplaceBerkeley, California, U.S. 1 Defining ContributionDeveloped with Luis Alvarez the theory that dinosaurs were killed by an asteroid impact 1 Notable WorkT. rex and the Crater of Doom 1 Connections
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Walter Alvarez (born October 3, 1940) is an American professor in the Earth and Planetary Science department at the University of California, Berkeley.
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October 3, 1940
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Berkeley, California, U.S.
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is an American professor
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developed the theory that dinosaurs were killed by an asteroid impact
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T. rex and the Crater of Doom (Princeton University Press, 1997)
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citizen of United States
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born in Berkeley
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