Arthur Geoffrey Walker
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Prof Arthur Geoffrey Walker FRS FRSE (17 July 1909 in Watford, Hertfordshire, England – 31 March 2001)[1][2] was a British mathematician who made important contributions to physics and physical cosmology. Although he was an accomplished geometer, he is best remembered today for two important contributions to general relativity.
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Arthur Geoffrey Walker | |
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Born | (1909-07-17)17 July 1909 Watford, Hertfordshire, England |
Died | 31 March 2001(2001-03-31) (aged 91) |
Alma mater | Balliol College, Oxford Merton College, Oxford University of Edinburgh |
Occupation(s) | Mathematician, math professor |
Spouse | Phyllis Ashcroft Freeman (m. 1939) |
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Together with H. P. Robertson, they devised 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.