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 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.
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[edit] Scientific career
In 2000 Walker published The Physics of Consciousness. This book attempts to describe how quantum mechanical processes may be responsible for the creation of human consciousness.
Walker developed concepts and designs that have resulted in several inventions including one invention in the field of solar energy and a recent development in the field of environmental protection. His inventions were introduced into the design of the Abrams Tank used in the Gulf War, contributing to the saving of 48 lives (by actual count) during that conflict. He made significant contributions on behalf of the U.S. Government's interests to delay and mitigate the Yom Kippur War that occurred in 1973. Walker also contributed significantly to non-nuclear designs for ballistic missile defense.
Walker made contributions to the US Satellite Program in the development of formulas to determine satellite electric field effects on plasma probes and instrumentation. Walker was an authority on lunar surface phenomena, particularly in the areas of photoelectric effects on surface features, meteoric impact effects, cratering statistics, surface and subsurface structure, and erosion transport mechanisms on the moon.[1]
[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
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Walker Cancer Research Institute. Organizational home. Retrieved on February 04, 2006.
- Evan Harris Walker. Parapsychology Association. Retrieved on February 04, 2006.
- [[2] Student Tribute: Legendary Thinker, Physicist Evan H. Walker, Remembered this Week]. Science of Self Club. Retrieved on August 30, 2006.
