See also: Sir David Allan Walker

David Allan Walker

Air Marshal Sir David Allan Walker, KCVO OBE is a former senior RAF officer and current Master of the Household of the Royal Household.-Career:...

David Alan Walker (born 18 August 1928) is a British scientist and academic particularly known for his work on photosynthesis

Photosynthesis

Photosynthesis is a chemical process that converts carbon dioxide into organic compounds, especially sugars, using the energy from sunlight. Photosynthesis occurs in plants, algae, and many species of bacteria, but not in archaea. Photosynthetic organisms are called photoautotrophs, since they can...

. He has been Emeritus Professor of Photosynthesis at the University of Sheffield

University of Sheffield

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 since 1993.

Life and career

Walker was born in Hull

Kingston upon Hull

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 and attended South Shields Boys' High School (now Harton Technology College

Harton Technology College

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) from 1939 to 1946. After doing his national service

Conscription in the United Kingdom

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 in the Royal Naval Air Service

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, he studied at the University of Durham where he received his BSc and PhD and at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne

University of Newcastle upon Tyne

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 where he received his DSc. The author of over 200 publications, including several books, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1976 and in 2004 received the International Society of Photosynthesis Research Communications Award "to acknowledge his outstanding efforts to communicate photosynthesis to the general public."

Sources

• Royal Society
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   (1999). List of Fellows of the Royal Society 1660-1998, p. 167.
• Walker, David Alan (1997). "'Tell me where all past years are'". Photosynthesis Research 51: pp. 1–26, 1997.

External links

• Downloadable publications by David Alan Walker, FRS hosted by Hansatech Instruments for the International Society of Photosynthesis Research
• David Alan Walker on WorldCat
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