William D. Walker

William D. Walker, Professor. William D. Walker (1923 – 2010) was a prominent experimentalist and theorist in elementary particle physics. He attended Rice University in Houston, obtaining his degree in Physics in 1944. As an officer in the US Navy working on far-infrared detection until the end of World War II. He then went to graduate school at Cornell University, where he did research on cosmic-ray physics and obtained his Ph.D. in 1949. After teaching briefly at Rice, at the University of California, Berkeley and at the University of Rochester, in 1957 he accepted a teaching position at the University of Wisconsin Madison (served as Chairman from 1964 to 1971.) He left for Duke University in 1971 (again served as Chairman from 1975 to 1981.)