Luis W. Alvarez
Luis W. Alvarez was a prominent American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1968 for his work on bubble chamber technology. He is also famous for his contributions to paleontology, particularly the asteroid impact hypothesis, which he proposed as the cause for the mass extinction event that killed the dinosaurs. His research led to the identification of the Chicxulub crater in Mexico as the impact site.
Born on Jun 13, 1911 (114 years old)
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Luis W. Alvarez proposed the hypothesis that a meteorite impact caused the mass extinction at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary.
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