Walter Alvarez
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| Gender | Male |
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| Age | 83 |
| Date of birth | October 3,1940 |
| Zodiac sign | Libra |
| Born | Berkeley |
| California | |
| United States | |
| Parents | Luis Walter Alvarez |
| Geraldine Smithwick | |
| Albums | A Most Improbable Journey - A Big History of Our Planet and Ourselves (Unabridged) |
| Awards | G. K. Gilbert Award |
| Vetlesen Prize | |
| Barringer Medal | |
| Penrose Medal | |
| Nationality | American |
| Grandparents | Walter C. Alvarez |
| Harriet Smyth | |
| Education | Princeton University |
| Carleton College | |
| Great grandparent | Luis F. Álvarez |
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| ID | 739128 |
Walter Alvarez Life story
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.
