Walter Alvarez, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Walter Alvarez

American geologist

Date of Birth: 03-Oct-1940

Place of Birth: Berkeley, California, United States

Profession: physicist, geologist, university teacher, paleontologist, archaeologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Walter Alvarez (born October 3, 1940) is a professor in the Earth and Planetary Science department at the University of California, Berkeley.
He is most widely known for the theory that dinosaurs were killed by an asteroid impact, developed in collaboration with his father, Nobel Prize winning physicist Luis Alvarez.