Alvarez finds evidence of dinosaur-killing asteroid 1980. In 1980 physicist Luis Alvarez and his son, geologist Walter Alvarez, both of the University of California, were working together on a ...

For his work on the hydrogen bubble chamber and the identification of resonance states (usually short-lived subatomic particles) Luis Alvarez had served as administrator to a large staff using the ...

A diverse group of scientists, physicist Luis Alvarez, his son, geologist Walter Alvarez, and chemists Frank Asaro and Helen Vaughn Michel, was first to propose to the Alvarez hypothesis, suggesting ...

The team discovered that the layer is hundreds of times richer in iridium than average, and suggested that an asteroid strike covered the Earth in the element and triggered the mass extinction event.

The crater was discovered in the 1990s, but the idea that the K–Pg extinction was caused by an asteroid impact was proposed a decade earlier by a team that included the physics Nobel laureate Luis ...

In 1980 scientist Luis Alvarez and his son Water Alvarez found significant amounts of iridium in a certain part of the Earth's crust, spread out all over the Earth's surface.

Asteroids are notably rich in iridium, and Luis Alvarez and colleagues 6 postulated that the K–Pg extinction was caused by an asteroid impact; subsequently a suitably sized crater was discovered ...

A new biography of Luis Alvarez captures the details but misses the drama in the career of a scientist whose work ranged from ...

Alvarez finds evidence of dinosaur-killing asteroid 1980. In 1980 physicist Luis Alvarez and his son, geologist Walter Alvarez, both of the University of California, were working together on a ...

For his work on the hydrogen bubble chamber and the identification of resonance states (usually short-lived subatomic particles) Luis Alvarez had served as administrator to a large staff using the ...