OtterKnow Kids EncyclopediaLuis Alvarez was a super smart scientist who loved solving giant mysteries! He won the Nobel Prize for his science work. His clever detective skills helped us learn what happened to the dinosaurs!
Luis helped build special tools for airplanes to fly safely in the fog. But his biggest adventure was trying to figure out what happened to the dinosaurs! Luis and his son Walter looked at very old rocks and found clues hidden deep inside the dirt. They discovered that a huge space rock called an asteroid crashed into Earth a long time ago, creating a massive dust cloud that made the dinosaurs disappear!
- Luis Alvarez and his son figured out that an asteroid crash caused the dinosaurs to go extinct!
- He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1968.
- Luis even helped build special landing systems so airplanes could land safely in foggy weather!
