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Gilbert Walker

1868 - 1958

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Sir Gilbert Thomas Walker (14 June 1868 – 4 November 1958) was an English physicist and statistician of the 20th century. Walker studied mathematics and applied it to a variety of fields including aerodynamics, electromagnetism and the analysis of time-series data before taking up a teaching position at the University of Cambridge. Although he had no experience in meteorology, he was recruited for a post in the Indian Meteorological Department where he worked on statistical approaches to predict the monsoons. He developed the methods in the analysis of time-series data that are now called the Yule-Walker equations. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gilbert Walker is the 546th most popular physicist (up from 747th in 2019), the 2,812th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,605th in 2019) and the 61st most popular British Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Gilbert Walker ranks 546 out of 851. Before him are Ira Sprague Bowen, Joseph Larmor, Vladimir Steklov, Gerard K. O'Neill, Pief Panofsky, and Grote Reber. After him are John Robison, Ludvig Faddeev, Gunnar Nordström, Woldemar Voigt, Giovanni Battista Beccaria, and Gene Amdahl.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, Gilbert Walker ranks 131. Before him are Camille Jenatzy, Arthur Gore, Delfim Moreira, Emilie Snethlage, Cuno Amiet, and Georges Lacombe. After him are Ozaki Kōyō, Filipp Makharadze, Mikhail Pokrovsky, Emil Racoviță, Émile Fisseux, and Sumner Paine. Among people deceased in 1958, Gilbert Walker ranks 98. Before him are Tommy Taylor, Paul Reinecke, Celso Benigno Luigi Costantini, Aarre Merikanto, Henry Kuttner, and Cândido Rondon. After him are Mark Jones, Marcel Pilet-Golaz, Evgeny Schwartz, Max Jakob Friedländer, Vittorio Ambrosio, and Mike Todd.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Gilbert Walker ranks 2,813 out of 8,785. Before him are Anthony Horowitz (1955), Cuthred of Wessex (750), Harold Laski (1893), Vanessa Angel (1966), John Cockerill (1790), and Alexander Albon (1996). After him are Bobby Sands (1954), William Turner (1510), George Rooke (1650), Toby Jones (1966), Siân Phillips (1933), and Mrs Patrick Campbell (1865).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Gilbert Walker ranks 61. Before him are Frederick Guthrie (1833), G. M. B. Dobson (1889), John Leslie (1766), Paul Davies (1946), William Robert Grove (1811), and Joseph Larmor (1857). After him are John Robison (1739), William Astbury (1898), Ernest Marsden (1889), Ralph H. Fowler (1889), John Lennard-Jones (1894), and Sergey Kapitsa (1928).

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