Asaro, Frank
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The prehistoric occupation of Chavín de Huántar, PeruBook 1984
- Summary
- Frank Asaro was an Emeritus Senior Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory associated with the University of California at Berkeley. He is best known as the chemist who discovered the iridium anomaly in the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary layer that led the team of Luis Alvarez, Walter Alvarez, Frank Asaro, and Helen Michel to propose the Asteroid-Impact Theory, which postulates that an asteroid hit the Earth sixty-five million years ago and caused mass extinction during the age of the dinosaurs. Wikipedia
- Gender or Sex
- Male [1]VIAF[3]Wikidata
- Unknown [2]Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany)
- Born
- 1927 [2]Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany)
- 1927-07-31 [3]Wikidata
- Birth Place
- San Diego, Calif. [2]Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany)
- San Diego [3]Wikidata
- Died
- 2014 [2]Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany)
- 2014-06-10 [3]Wikidata
- Death Place
- El Cerrito [3]Wikidata
- Country
- United States [2]Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany)
- Occupation
- chemist [3]Wikidata
- Employer
- University of California, Berkeley [3]Wikidata
- Educated at
- University of California, Berkeley [3]Wikidata
- Country of Education
- United States [3]Wikidata
- Sources
- 1. VIAF
- 2. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany)
- 3. Wikidata
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