Evan Harris Walker
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Evan Harris Walker (died August 17, 2006), was an American physicist.
Born in Birmingham, Alabama, Walker received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Maryland in 1964. He holds over a dozen patents and has published more than a hundred papers in scientific journals.
Walker founded the Walker Cancer Research Institute, a nonprofit organization based in Aberdeen, Maryland, which funds public awareness of the risk of cancer and research for a cure.
In 2000 he published The Physics of Consciousness. This book attempts to describe how quantum mechanical processes may be responsible for the creation of human consciousness, drawing upon Zen Buddhist philosophy to describe what consciousness is and is not. It also discusses his relationship as a teenager with Merilyn Ann Zehnder (who died of cancer).
In recent years, Walker is said to have promoted the charge that Albert Einstein "stole" special relativity from his first wife, Mileva Marić. (This claim has not been accepted by mainstream historians of science.)
Evan Harris Walker died, aged 70, on August 17, 2006, at Harford Memorial Hospital in Havre de Grace, Maryland.
[edit] References
- "The Physics of Consciousness: The Quantum Mind and the Meaning of Life" by Evan Harris Walker, Ph.D., published in 2000 by Perseus Publishing, ISBN 0-7382-0436-6
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[edit] External links
- Walker Cancer Research Institute. Organizational home. Retrieved on February 04, 2006.
- Evan Harris Walker. Parapsychology Association. Retrieved on February 04, 2006.
- [[1] Student Tribute: Legendary Thinker, Physicist Evan H. Walker, Remembered this Week]. Science of Self Club. Retrieved on August 30, 2006.
