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Wendell Phillips
Born
Wendell Phillips
DiedDecember 4, 1975(1975-12-04) (aged 54)
Alma materUniversity of California
Known forKT Impact Dinosaur Extinction Event
Spouse
Milly Alvarez
(m. 1963)
AwardsG. K. Gilbert Award (1985)
Penrose Medal (2002)
Vetlesen Prize (2008)
Barringer Medal (2013)
Scientific career
FieldsGeology
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley

Wendell Phillips was an archeologist and oilman who has been called the American Lawrence of Arabia and the inspiration for Indiana Jones, in the Steven Spielberg film.

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.

Biography

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Born in Berkeley, California, Alvarez is the son of Luis Walter Alvarez, a Nobel prize-winner in physics. His grandfather was the famed physics researcher Walter C. Alvarez and his great-grandfather, Spanish-born Luis F. Alvarez, worked as a doctor in Hawaii and developed a method for the better diagnosis of macular leprosy. His great-aunt Mabel Alvarez was a noted California artist and oil painter.[1]

Alvarez earned his B.A. in geology in 1962 from Carleton College in Minnesota and Ph.D. in geology from Princeton University in 1967. He worked for American Overseas Petroleum Limited in the Netherlands, and in Libya at the time of Colonel Gadaffi's revolution. Having developed a side interest in archaeological geology, he left the oil company and spent some time in Italy, studying the Roman volcanics and their influence on patterns of settlement in early Roman times.[1]

Alvarez then moved to Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory of Columbia University, and began studying the Mediterranean tectonics in the light of the new theory of plate tectonics. His work on tectonic paleomagnetism in Italy led to a study of the geomagnetic reversals recorded in Italian deep-sea limestones. Alvarez and his colleagues were able to date the reversals for an interval of more than 100 million years of the Earth's history by using Foraminifera biostratigraphy.[1][2]





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George Leese Bitzer

(1860-12-21)December 21, 1860 - July 6, 1934(1934-07-06) (aged 73)

  1. ^ a b c "Walter Alvarez". Department of Earth and Planatery Science at UCB. Retrieved 9 February 2014.
  2. ^ Alvarez, Walter. "The historical record in the Scaglia limestone at Gubbio: magnetic reversals and the Cretaceous-Tertiary mass extinction" (PDF). Sedimentology. Retrieved 10 February 2014.