# Walter Alvarez

> Walter Alvarez is a professor in the Earth and Planetary Science department at the University of California, Berkeley. He and his father, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Luis Alvarez, developed the theory that dinosaurs were killed by an asteroid impact.

*American geologist*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/walter-alvarez

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Scientist ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Scientists
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1940-10-03
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** male

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 55.1 / 100
- **Momentum:** 10.0 / 100  (trend: RISING)
- **Historical depth:** 20.5 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 50.9 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 60.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 70.0 / 100

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