Walter Alvarez
American geologist · United States · Scientists · Born 1940 · age 86
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Something wrong?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.
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2008Vetlesen PrizeAward2006Nevada MedalAward2002Penrose MedalAward1998Dickson Prize in ScienceAward1985G. K. Gilbert AwardAward1940Born3 October 1940
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Walter Alvarez at the original site where he discovered the dinosaur extinction evidence near Gubbio, Italy.
Alvarez helped to organize a meeting of Big Historians at the Geological Observatory at Coldigioco in Italy in 2010 which resulted in the establishment of the International Big History Association.
Alvarez presented "Earth History in the Broadest Possible Context" at Chevron Auditorium on the UC Berkeley campus where ChronoZoom 2.0 was first publicly demonstrated in 2012.Awards
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Born 1940 · age 86
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