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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...
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    Luis Walter Alvarez (June 13, 1911 – September 1, 1988) was an American experimental physicist, inventor, and professor who was awarded the Nobel Prize...
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    Walter Clement Alvarez (July 22, 1884 – June 18, 1978) was an American physician of Spanish descent. He authored several dozen books on medicine, and wrote...
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  • surname include: Ana Álvarez (born 1969), Spanish model and actress Andreína Álvarez (born 1979), Venezuelan actor Angela Alvarez (1927–2024), Cuban-born...
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    dinosaurs. In the late 1970s, geologist Walter Alvarez and his father, Nobel Prize-winning scientist Luis Walter Alvarez, put forth their theory that the Cretaceous–Paleogene...
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    hypothesis is named after the father-and-son team of scientists Luis and Walter Alvarez, who first suggested it in 1980. Shortly afterwards, and independently...
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  • Nobel Prize winner Luis Fernández Álvarez (1853–1937), physician and grandfather of Luis Walter Alvarez Luis Álvarez-Gaumé (born 1955), Spanish theoretical...
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  • Emilio Wálter Álvarez Silva (10 February 1939 – 22 April 2010) was a Uruguayan football defender who played for Uruguay in the 1962 and 1966 FIFA World...
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    researchers led by Nobel prize-winning physicist Luis Alvarez, his son, geologist Walter Alvarez, and chemists Frank Asaro and Helen Vaughn Michel discovered...
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    named for the historian Gregorio Álvarez, not the more familiar physicist Luis Alvarez, or his son geologist Walter Alvarez who jointly proposed that the...
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    ceremony of the Oliver E. Buckley Prize of condensed matter physics. Luis Walter Alvarez (left) congratulates David Gilbert Thomas (middle) and John Hopfield...
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    excelled in science are Luis Walter Álvarez, Nobel Prize–winning physicist of Spanish descent, and his son Walter Alvarez, a geologist. They first proposed...
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    1994. Bohemian Club Constitution, 1904 Trower, W. P. (2009). Luis Walter Alvarez 1911–1988 (PDF). Biographical Memoirs. National Academy of Sciences...
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    Searches Jesse 2023 A Good Person Mark The Line Tom Backster Oppenheimer Luis Walter Alvarez 2024 A Quiet Place: Day One Reuben 2025 Magic Farm Completed...
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  • Alien: Romulus (category Films directed by Fede Álvarez)
    Romulus is a 2024 science fiction horror film directed by Fede Álvarez and written by Álvarez and Rodo Sayagues. Produced by Scott Free Productions and Brandywine...
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    Microplates to the Mexican Killer Asteroid: Honoring the Career of Walter Alvarez, Geological Society of America, pp. 391–414, doi:10.1130/2022.2557(19)...
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    1980 by Walter Alvarez, Luis Alvarez, and colleagues, attributes the K-Pg extinction event to a bolide (extraterrestrial projectile) impact. Alvarez and colleagues...
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  • broadest possible scale from the Big Bang to the present day. Conceived by Walter Alvarez and Roland Saekow and developed by the department of Earth and Planetary...
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  • Germany's nuclear weapons program during World War II. Alex Wolff as Luis Walter Alvarez, a Nobel-winning physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project. Josh...
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  • and the Crater of Doom is a nonfiction book by UC Berkeley professor Walter Alvarez that was published by Princeton University Press in 1997. The book discusses...
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    uncommitted strength. In spite of this, observers such as physicists Luis Alvarez and Jeremy Bernstein have suggested that if Oppenheimer had lived long...
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  • critter" hypothesis. In 1948, the Saturday Evening Post quoted Luis Walter Alvarez's opinion that the "gizmos" appeared to be "alive". In April 1949, the...
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  • be tektites. A team consisting of the physicist Luis Alvarez, his son, geologist Walter Alvarez, and chemists Frank Asaro and Helen Vaughn Michel were...
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    Mexican Clausura 2007. Álvarez has been a significant member in every championship. In the 2010 draft of the Liga MX, Álvarez was bought by Tigres UANL...
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    originally proposed in 1980 by a team of scientists led by Luis Alvarez and his son Walter, it is now generally thought that the K–Pg extinction was caused...
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    Haldan Keffer Hartline; George Wald Miguel Ángel Asturias None 1968 Luis Walter Alvarez Lars Onsager Robert W. Holley; Har Gobind Khorana; Marshall Warren Nirenberg...
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    were major subjects of interest. In 1980, father and son duo Luis and Walter Alvarez reported anomalously high levels of the platinum group metal iridium...
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    made possible by the cavity magnetron. The project was led by Luis Walter Alvarez. Deployed to the European Theater in 1944, the MEW proved to be an extremely...
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    up to be Nobel Prize winners in physics: William Shockley and Luis Walter Alvarez. Based on the historical findings of the Terman study and on biographical...
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    published his theory of beta decay in 1934, but an experiment by Luis Walter Alvarez had produced results at variance with the theory. Wu set out to repeat...
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