George P. L. Walker

George Walker
Born
George Patrick Leonard Walker

(1926-03-02)2 March 1926
Died17 January 2005(2005-01-17) (aged 78)
NationalityBritish
Alma materQueen's University, Belfast (BSc, 1948), (MSc, 1949)
University of Leeds (PhD, 1956)
Known forVolcanology; mineralogy.
Scientific career
FieldsVolcanologist
InstitutionsImperial College London
University of Auckland
University of Hawaiʻi
Doctoral advisorWilliam Quarrier Kennedy
Doctoral studentsSteve Sparks
Stephen Self
Geoff Wadge
Ian S. E. Carmichael[1]
Colin Wilson

George Patrick Leonard Walker FRS (2 March 1926 – 17 January 2005) was a British geologist who began his career studying mineralogy and later made significant contributions to volcanology.[2][3][4][5][6] He was widely regarded as one of the pioneers of modern quantitative volcanology.[7]

  1. ^ Carmichael, Ian Stuart Edward (1962). Volcanic geology of Thingmuli, Eastern Iceland (PhD thesis). Imperial College London. hdl:10044/1/13654. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.602161. Free access icon
  2. ^ Self, S.; Sparks, R.S.J. (10 January 2006). "George Patrick Leonard Walker. 2 March 1926 — 17 January 2005: Elected FRS 1975". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 52: 423–436. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2006.0029. S2CID 58809052.
  3. ^ Wilson, C. J. N.; Walker, G. P. L. (1985). "The Taupo Eruption, New Zealand I. General Aspects". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 314 (1529): 199. Bibcode:1985RSPTA.314..199W. doi:10.1098/rsta.1985.0019. S2CID 122824685.
  4. ^ T. Thordarson; G. Larsen; S. K. Rowland; S. Self; A. Hoskuldsson, eds. (2009). Studies in Volcanology: The Legacy of George Walker. IAVCEI. ISBN 9781862392809. [ISBN missing]
  5. ^ Wadge, Geoff (22 February 2005). "George Walker". The Guardian.
  6. ^ IAVCEI - A George P.L. Walker symposium on Advances in Volcanology Archived 2010-07-13 at the Wayback Machine - Reykholt, Borgarfjordur, W-Iceland, 12–17 June 2006
  7. ^ Thordarson, T.; Self, S.; Larsen, G.; Rowland, S. K.; Höskuldsson, Á (1 January 2009). "Studies in Volcanology: The Legacy of George Walker". Geological Society of London – via pubs.geoscienceworld.org.