GEOLOGIST

Walter Alvarez

1940 - Today

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Walter Alvarez is the 17th most popular geologist (up from 68th in 2019), the 2,164th most popular biography from United States (up from 8,435th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular American Geologist.

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Among GEOLOGISTS

Among geologists, Walter Alvarez ranks 17 out of 90. Before him are Andrija Mohorovičić, Francis Beaufort, Abraham Gottlob Werner, Beno Gutenberg, Gideon Mantell, and Vasily Dokuchaev. After him are William Smith, Adam Sedgwick, Jean-André Deluc, Christian Leopold von Buch, Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu, and Ignacy Domeyko.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Walter Alvarez ranks 123. Before him are Nobuyoshi Araki, Frida Boccara, Peter Diamond, Gojko Mitić, Robin Cook, and Souleymane Cissé. After him are Rudi Dutschke, Régis Debray, Fabrizio De André, Jean-Luc Dehaene, Amjad Khan, and Ricky Nelson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Walter Alvarez ranks 2,164 out of 20,380. Before him are James Tiptree Jr. (1915), Gene Sharp (1928), Martin Gardner (1914), Mary Steenburgen (1953), William Le Baron Jenney (1832), and Alvin Kraenzlein (1876). After him are Paul L. Smith (1936), Oliver Otis Howard (1830), Stacy Keach (1941), Robert Bloch (1917), John Densmore (1944), and Paul Marcinkus (1922).

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Among GEOLOGISTS In United States

Among geologists born in United States, Walter Alvarez ranks 2. Before him are Charles Francis Richter (1900). After him are Harry Hammond Hess (1906), Barnum Brown (1873), Niles Eldredge (1943), James Hall (1811), Hugo Benioff (1899), M. King Hubbert (1903), Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden (1829), William Barton Rogers (1804), David A. Johnston (1949), and John Bell Hatcher (1861).

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