Dinosaur extinction — one of many areas of science that owes much to Alvarez
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As well as developing radar techniques that exploit the inversesquare law, Alvarez carried out important work on electron capture and nuclear decay, and developed the bubble chamber used to study subatomic particles. He pioneered the use of muons to probe Egyptian pyramids, and contributed to theories of asteroid impact to explain dinosaur extinction.
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