Arthur Earl Walker

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Arthur Earl Walker (born March 12, 1907 in Winnipeg , Manitoba , † January 1, 1995 near Tucson ) was an American neurosurgeon and neurologist .

Life

Walker graduated from the University of Alberta in 1930 and then qualified at Yale University , in Amsterdam and Brussels. In 1937 he went to the University of Chicago and taught neurosurgery there. During World War II , he was head of neurology at Cushing General Hospital in Framingham , Massachusetts . He worked here on the subject of post-traumatic epilepsy. In 1947 he became professor of neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital , where he worked until his retirement in 1972.

Walker wrote over 400 original works and was the author or (co-) editor of numerous books. The Dandy-Walker malformation and the Walker-Warburg syndrome are named after him.

He was u. a. 1953–61 President of the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) and was a. a. 1971 honored as "Ambassador for Epilepsy" by the ILAE and the International Bureau for Epilepsy (IBE).

In 1964 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ E. Niedermeyer: A. Earl Walker: neurosurgeon, neuroscientist, and epileptologist. (in memoriam). In: Epilepsia. 36, 1995, pp. 516-521.
  2. ↑ AE Walker, FA Quadfasel: problem in post-traumatic epilepsy . In: Arch Neurol Psychiatry . tape 59 , no. 2 , February 1948, p. 254-258 , PMID 18861102 .
  3. ^ AE Walker, C. Marshall, EN Beresford: Cortical activity in cases of post-traumatic epilepsy . In: Arch Neurol Psychiatry . tape 59 , no. 4 , April 1948, p. 558 , PMID 18879804 .
  4. ^ AE Walker: The Primate Thalamus. University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1938.
  5. ^ AE Walker, HC Johnson: Penicillin in Neurology. CC Thomas, Springfield, Illinois 1946.
  6. ^ AE Walker: Posttraumatic Epilepsy. CC Thomas, Springfield, Illinois 1949. (New edition: ME Debakay (Ed.); AE Walker: Posttraumatic Epilepsy. (= American Lecture Series. No. 20). Literary Licensing (LLC), Whitefish, Montana 2013)
  7. ^ AE Walker (Ed.): A History of Neurological Surgery. Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, Maryland 1951.
  8. ↑ L. Finney, AE Walker: Transtentorial Herniation. CC Thomas, Springfield, Illinois 1962.
  9. ↑ WF Caveness, AE Walker (Ed.): Head Injury; Conference Proceedings, University of Chicago February 6-9, 1966. JB Lippincott, Philadelphia 1966.
  10. ↑ AE Walker, WF Caveness, M. Critchley (ed.): The Late Effects of Head Injury. CC Thomas, Springfield, Illinois 1969.
  11. ^ R. Hassler, AE Walker (ed.): Trigeminal Neuralgia. Pathogenesis and Pathophysiology. G. Thieme, Stuttgart 1970.
  12. ^ AE Walker: Cerebral Death. Professional Information Library, Dallas, Texas 1977. (3rd edition. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Baltimore 1985)
  13. ^ ER Laws Jr, GB Udvarhelyi (Ed.); AE Walker: Genesis of Neuroscience. American Association of Neurological Surgeons, Park Ridge, Illinois 1998.
personal data
SURNAME Walker, Arthur Earl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American neurosurgeon
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Winnipeg , Manitoba
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 1995
Place of death at Tucson