Walter Alvarez
Geologist, Academic
1940 –
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Who is Walter Alvarez?
Walter Alvarez is a professor in the Earth and Planetary Science department at the University of California, Berkeley. He is most widely known for the theory that dinosaurs were killed by an asteroid impact, developed in collaboration with his father, Nobel Prize winning physicist Luis Alvarez.
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- Born
- Oct 3, 1940
Berkeley - Parents
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts, Carleton College
Geology
( - 1962) - PhD, Princeton University
Geology
( - 1967)
- Bachelor of Arts, Carleton College
- Employment
- University of California, Berkeley
- Columbia University
- Lived in
- Berkeley
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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