Edward Walker (mathematician)

Edward Walker
Born 1820
Gestingthorpe, Essex, UK
Died (1893-03-02)2 March 1893
Shepherd's Bush, London
Alma mater Trinity College, Cambridge
Awards Adams Prize (1865)[1]

Edward Walker FRS (1820 – 2 March 1893) was an English applied mathematician and theoretical physicist.[2]

He graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge with B.A. (8th Wrangler) in 1844 and M.A. in 1847. At Trinity College he was a Fellow in 1845 and an assistant Tutor in 1846–1847. He won the Adams Prize in 1865 and was elected F.R.S. on 3 June 1869.[3] He was called to the bar at Inner Temple on 17 November 1868.[2]

On 30 September 1847 he married Anne Whinfield at St. James's Church, Norlands, Bayswater.[4] The marriage produced several children.

References

  1. Walker, Edward (1866). Terrestrial and Cosmical Magnetism. Cambridge, UK: Deighton, Bell, & Co.
  2. 1 2 "Walker, Edward (WLKR839E)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  3. Boase, Frederic (1901). Modern English Biography. Vol. 3. p. 1143.
  4. "Appendix to Chronicle. Marriages". Annual Register, 1847. p. 189.
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