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Prof '''Arthur Geoffrey Walker''' [[Royal Society of London|FRS]] [[FRSE]] (17 July 1909 in [[Watford]], [[Hertfordshire]], England – 31 March 2001)<ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Hitchin | first1 = N. J. | doi = 10.1098/rsbm.2006.0028 | title = Arthur Geoffrey Walker. 17 July 1909 -- 31 March 2001: Elected FRS 1955 | journal = [[Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society]] | volume = 52 | pages = 413–421 | year = 2006 | doi-access =
Together with [[Howard Percy Robertson|H. P. Robertson]], they devised the well-known [[Robertson–Walker metric|Robertson-Walker metric]] for the [[Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker]] cosmological models, which are [[exact solutions in general relativity|exact solutions]] of the Einstein field equation. Together with [[Enrico Fermi]], he introduced the notion of [[Fermi–Walker differentiation]].
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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 to 1962.<ref name=MCreg /> He served as
==Publications==
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