Walter Alvarez

Walter Alvarez is an American 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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Who was born first?

• Walter Alvarez and Thomas A. Steitz were born the same year
• Walter Alvarez and David Koch were born the same year
• Walter Alvarez and Elwyn Ralph Berlekamp were born the same year
• Walter Alvarez and John Warnock were born the same year
• Walter Alvarez and Brian David Josephson were born the same year

Timeline

1. Brian David JosephsonJanuary 4, 1940 – present
2. David KochMay 3, 1940 – August 23, 2019
3. Elwyn Ralph BerlekampSeptember 6, 1940 – April 9, 2019
4. John WarnockOctober 6, 1940 – August 19, 2023
5. Thomas A. SteitzAugust 23, 1940 – October 9, 2018
6. Walter Alvarez (this page)October 3, 1940 – present

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• Carl Friedrich GaussApril 30, 1777 – February 23, 1855
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• Ernest RutherfordAugust 30, 1871 – October 19, 1937
• Erwin SchrödingerAugust 12, 1887 – January 4, 1961
• Wilhelm RöntgenMarch 27, 1845 – February 10, 1923
• Carl SaganNovember 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996