What achievement did Álvarez accomplish with his son?

He developed a method to detonate the atomic bomb.

He founded a technological university in Hawaii.

He published an article on subatomic particles.

He developed a theory on the extinction of dinosaurs.

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The achievement Álvarez accomplished with his son was developing a theory on the extinction of dinosaurs. They proposed the hypothesis that a large asteroid impact caused the mass extinction of the dinosaurs. This theory is known as the Alvarez hypothesis.