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'''Arthur Geoffrey Walker''' (17 July 1909 – 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 | pmid = | pmc = }}</ref><ref name="TimesObit">{{cite web |url=http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Walker_Arthur.html |title=Walker_Arthur summary |work= |accessdate=2011-07-21}}</ref> was a leading [[mathematician]] who made important contributions to [[physics]] and [[physical cosmology]]. Although Hehe was bornan inaccomplished [[Watforddifferential geometry|geometer]], he is best remembered today for two important contributions to [[Hertfordshiregeneral relativity]]. Together with [[Howard Percy Robertson|H. P. Robertson]], Englandthe well-known [[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]].

Walker attended [[Watford Grammar School for Boys]] and won a scholarship to [[Balliol College, Oxford]], where he graduated with first class honours.<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]] and completed his doctorate at the [[University of Edinburgh]].<ref name=MCreg /><ref>{{cite web | title = A. G. Walker| publisher = The Times| year = 2001| url = http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Obits/Walker_Arthur.html | accessdate =2008-10-13 }}</ref>