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Who was the Nobel prize-winning physicist who co-published the paper that proposed the hypothesis that the mass dinosaur extinction was caused by an asteroid crashing into the earth?

Question #150208. Asked by Upstart3.
Last updated Nov 26 2023.
Originally posted Nov 25 2023 11:43 AM.

BigTriviaDawg

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BigTriviaDawg

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Luis Alvarez! He proposed that a meteor hit 65 million years ago in the area of Yucatan which is now the Gulf of Mexico. The massive impact would have caused massive firestorms, flooding, and occlusion of the sun. This process caused an increase in iradium which was discovered by Alvarez as the KT boundary.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvarez_hypothesis

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Nov 25 2023, 3:59 PM

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Who was the Nobel prize-winning physicist who co-published the paper that proposed the hypothesis that the mass dinosaur extinction was caused by an asteroid crashing into the earth?

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