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Prof '''Arthur Geoffrey Walker''' [[Royal Society of London|FRS]] [[FRSE]] (17 July 1909 in [[Watford]], [[Hertfordshire]], England
Together with [[Howard Percy Robertson|H. P. Robertson]], they devised the well-known
==Early life==
He was born in [[Watford]] on 17 July 1909 the son of Arthur John Walker (b.1879), a coach builder, and his wife, Eleanor Joanna Gosling.<ref
Walker attended [[Watford Grammar School for Boys]] and won a scholarship to [[Balliol College, Oxford]], where he graduated with first class honours in Mathematics.<ref name="MCreg">{{cite book|editor1-last=Levens|editor1-first=R.G.C.|title=Merton College Register 1900-1964|date=1964|publisher=[[Basil Blackwell]]|location=Oxford|page=232}}</ref> He then studied at [[Merton College, Oxford]]. He then went as a postgraduate to [[University of Edinburgh]], studying under Prof [[Arthur Eddington]] and gaining his first doctorate (PhD).<ref name=
==Academic career==
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.<ref name=
In 1946 he was elected a Fellow of the [[Royal Society of Edinburgh]]. His proposers were [[Harold Stanley Ruse]], Sir [[Edmund Taylor Whittaker]], [[David Gibb (mathematician)|David Gibb]] and [[William Edge (mathematician)|William Edge]]. He won the Society's [[Keith Medal]] for the period 1947/49.<ref name = KM/>
In 1952 he returned to Liverpool University, in 1962 becoming Dean of its Faculty of Science.<ref name=MCreg /> Having been elected a Fellow of the [[Royal Society]] in 1955, he served as a member of the organisation's council from 1961
==Publications==
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==Awards and honours==
*Fellow of the [[Royal Astronomical Society]], 1934<ref name=MCreg />
*Fellow of the [[Royal Society of Edinburgh]], 1946<ref name = KM>{{cite
*[[Berwick Prize]], 1947<ref name=
*[[Keith Medal]], 1947-9<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=IEhAAAAAIBAJ
*Fellow of the [[Royal Society]], 1955<ref name=
==Personal life==
Walker married Phyllis Ashcroft Freeman in 1939;<ref name=MCreg /> the couple were accomplished ballroom dancers.<ref name=
==References==
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==External links==
*{{cite web |title=Arthur Geoffrey Walker |first1=J J |last1=O'Connor |first2=E F |last2=Robertson|url=
*{{cite web |title=Arthur Geoffrey Walker |url=http://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=143411 |publisher=Mathematical Genealogy Project; North Dakota State University |
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