About Robert M. Walker
Lived 1929 – 2004 (aged 75). Robert M. Walker was an American physicist.
Robert M. Walker (February 6, 1929 – February 12, 2004) was an American physicist, a planetary scientist, the founder and director of McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, noted for his co-discovery of the etchability of nuclear particle tracks in solids, as well as his conjecture that meteorites and lunar rocks contain a record of the ancient radiation history of various stars including the Sun.
Asteroid 6372 was named Walker in his honor by the International Astronomical Union.
2004 Doctor, honoris causa (posthumous), Washington University in St. Louis
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Who was Robert M. Walker?
American space scientist (1929-2004)
When was Robert M. Walker born?
Robert M. Walker was born on 6 February 1929.
When did Robert M. Walker die?
Robert M. Walker died on 12 February 2004 in Brussels.
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Robert M. Walker was a physicist.
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Robert M. Walker was American.
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