Education
Balliol College; University of Edinburgh. Merton College.
mathematician physicist university professor
Balliol College; University of Edinburgh. Merton College.
Together with H. P. Robertson, the well-known Robertson–Walker metric for the Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker cosmological models, which are exact solutions of the Einstein field equation. Together with Enrico Fermi, he introduced the notion of Fermi–Walker differentiation. He then studied at Merton College, Oxford and completed his doctorate at the University of Edinburgh.
Walker took up a post as Lecturer at Imperial College in 1935.
The following year he was appointed as Lecturer in Pure Mathematics at the University of Liverpool, a post he held until 1947, when he moved to the University of Sheffield as Professor of Pure Mathematics. In 1952 he returned to Liverpool University, in 1962 becoming Dean of its Faculty of Science.
He served as President of the London Mathematical Society from 1962-1963. he retired from Liverpool University in 1974. Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1934.
Royal Society; Royal Society of Edinburgh. London Mathematical Society]
Having been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1955, he served as a member of the organisation"s council from 1961-1962.