Frank Asaro
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1927 –
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Who is Frank Asaro?
Frank Asaro was an Emeritus Senior Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory associated with the University of California at Berkeley. He is best known as the chemist who discovered the iridium anomaly in the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary layer that led the team of Luis Alvarez, Walter Alvarez, Frank Asaro, and Helen Michel to propose the Asteroid-Impact Theory, which postulates that an asteroid hit the Earth sixty-five million years ago and caused mass extinction during the age of the dinosaurs.
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- Born
- Jul 31, 1927
United States of America - Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- University of California, Berkeley
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on July 23, 2013
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