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Walter Alvarez is an American male geophysicist who works in the field of geophysics. He was born in 1940 and speaks English.
He is recognized in the American Academy Arts Sciences collection. His academic collaborations are reflected in an Erdős number of 5.
Synthesized by Vinony from 10 facts across 3 sources: Wikidata, VIAF, Vinony collections. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
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Walter Alvarez appears in Vinony's American Academy of Arts & Sciences collection — one of 9,870 entries.
Vinony's link graph records 82 inbound references to Walter Alvarez, and connects out to University of California, Berkeley, Luis Walter Alvarez and Doctor of Philosophy.
It is catalogued under topics including 1940 births, American geologists and American people of Asturian descent.
Vinony links it to 24 Wikipedia language editions.
Authority record · VIAF
- Lifespan
- b. 1940
- Nationality
- US
- Role / Field
- Geofizycy, Geofizyka
- Language
- eng
- Gender
- Male
Recorded by 19 libraries
via VIAF · OCLC
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Walter
- Family name
- Álvarez
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Berkeley
- Father
- Luis Walter Alvarez
- Occupation
- paleontologist
- Educated at
- Carleton College
- Employer
- Columbia University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Image
- Walter Alvarez at the 97th Annual Faculty Research Lectures, University of California Berkeley.jpg
Show 5 more facts
- date of birth
- 1940-10-03
- member of
- Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- Commons category
- Walter Alvarez
- Erdős number
- 5
- archives at
- Carleton College
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