Did M.W. De Laubenfels live to see confirmation (KT asteroid strike)?

Factual Questions
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M.W. De Laubenfels is noted for one of the earliest publications positing that dinosaurs (and others) might have met their demises from the after-effects of an asteroid strike. However, he lacked the evidence that the Alvarezes had to give the theory a little more credibility.

Biographical info on him is practically non-existent, although a number of papers authored by him can be found online.

Anyone??? (Since he appears to have been born in the 1890s, it’s a safe bet he’s no longer among the living.)

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It is weird that there isn’t a decent bio of the guy on line considering the amount of published papers he has put out.

Based on the unscientific approach of Googling his name, I don’t see any date associated with him past 1957.

My guess is that he did not get to see confirmation.

3

It appears the Professor de Laubenfels’ vital dates are 1894-1960, so the answer is “No,” he didn’t live to see it.

Just in case it ever comes up.

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It’s worth noting that he also was born too late to see absolute confirmation, by about 65 million years.

Sailboat

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Interestingly, when I saw this thread, I thought, “I know someone named M. DeLaubenfels…I wonder if there’s any connection.” So I asked him about it last night. Turns out M.W. DeLaubenfels was his grandfather. I’ll forward this thread to him and see if he has any comment.

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ntucker, blinkin’ COOL! Give him my kind regards!