# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-c-alvarez
# Generated: 2026-08-31T16:44:47.425Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-c-alvarez"
name: "Walter C. Alvarez"
slug: "walter-c-alvarez"
description: "Walter Clement Alvarez was an American physician of Spanish descent. He authored several dozen books on medicine, and wrote introductions and forewords for many others."
tagline: "American medical doctor (1884–1978)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Walter_C_Alvarez_1958.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1884-07-22"
deathDate: "1978-06-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             9.507092607542383
  historical:           3.957957333333333
  currentAttention:     44.82758620689655
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "والتر س. ألفاريز"
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    title: "والتر س. الفاريز"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_C._Alvarez"
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    title: "Альварес, Уолтер Клемент"
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    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations