GEOLOGIST

Walter Alvarez

1940 - Today

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Walter Alvarez (born October 3, 1940) is a professor in the Earth and Planetary Science department at the University of California, Berkeley. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Walter Alvarez has received more than 338,292 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Walter Alvarez is the 68th most popular geologist (down from 61st in 2019), the 8,439th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,979th in 2019) and the 8th most popular American Geologist.

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  • 340k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.96

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.35

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.68

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among GEOLOGISTS

Among geologists, Walter Alvarez ranks 68 out of 90. Before him are Marcel Alexandre Bertrand, Robert Jameson, Maria Klenova, William Barton Rogers, William Nicol, and Ivan Gubkin. After him are Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden, Rinchen Barsbold, Lawrence Lambe, M. King Hubbert, David A. Johnston, and Henry De la Beche.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Walter Alvarez ranks 462. Before him are Marcel Aubour, Mariette Hartley, Apolo Nsibambi, Fred Hansen, S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan, and Dani Shmulevich-Rom. After him are Luis Ubiña, Jozef Štibrányi, Dave DeBusschere, Paul Williams, Richard D. Ryder, and Bohdan Paczyński.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Walter Alvarez ranks 8,439 out of 20,380. Before him are Benjamin Smith Barton (1766), Justin Bartha (1978), Mayo Methot (1904), George Pataki (1945), Ken Leung (1970), and Richard Olney (1835). After him are Ricky Jay (1946), Susan Peters (1921), Jeannie Berlin (1949), Margaret Woodrow Wilson (1886), Suzy Parker (1932), and Kelly Curtis (1956).

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Among GEOLOGISTS In United States

Among geologists born in United States, Walter Alvarez ranks 8. Before him are Barnum Brown (1873), Harry Hammond Hess (1906), Niles Eldredge (1943), Hugo Benioff (1899), James Hall (1811), and William Barton Rogers (1804). After him are Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden (1829), M. King Hubbert (1903), David A. Johnston (1949), Daniel Barringer (1860), Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin (1843), and Judith Curry (1953).

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