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Walter Alvarez (born October 3, 1940) 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.
Walter Alvarez (3 de outubro de 1940) é professor estadunidense do departamento de Ciências da Terra e Planetárias da Universidade da Califórnia, Berkeley.
10 de mai. de 2024 · Walter Alvarez is an American geologist and expert on plate tectonics and mountain formation, best known for the so-called asteroid theory—put forward by Alvarez and his father, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Luis Alvarez, in the 1980s—which states that the impact of an asteroid on Earth may have.
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Professor of the Graduate School. Bio/CV: Stratigraphy and Earth history, tectonics and structural geology, stratigraphy of pelagic limestones. Please note that Prof. Álvarez is active in research, but not in teaching, and does not accept new graduate students. Research interests:
22 de mai. de 2014 · O geólogo, que em 1980 revolucionou a ciência ao descobrir que os dinossauros tinham sido extintos pelo impacto de um asteróide, acredita hoje que a ciência moderna nasceu em Portugal. Na ...
25 de abr. de 2017 · Walter Alvarez, the originator of the theory that a comet or asteroid killed off the dinosaurs, discusses the origins of life itself in his new book, A Most Improbable Journey. He argues that human history was influenced by geological processes that could have gone differently and altered the course of life on Earth.
16 de out. de 2008 · Walter Alvarez, who proved that dinosaurs were wiped out by a giant asteroid, received the Earth Science equivalent of the Nobel in 2008. He discovered the iridium layer and the Yucatan crater that dated to 65 million years ago.
