Kenneth Walters
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Born | 14 September 1934 |
Died | 28 March 2022 (aged 87) |
Alma mater | University of Swansea[1] |
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Thesis | Some Elastico-Viscous Liquids with Continuous and Discrete Relaxation Spectra (1959) |
Doctoral advisor | James G. Oldroyd |
Kenneth Walters FRS (14 September 1934 – 28 March 2022)[2] was a British mathematician and rheologist. He was a Distinguished Research Professor at the Institute Of Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science of the Aberystwyth University.[3][4]
Education
Walters earned his PhD from the
Work
Walters made contributions to
Awards and honours
Prof. Walters was recognized extensively for his contributions to the rheological community by being awarded the Gold Medal from the British Society of Rheology in 1984 and the Weissenberg Award from the European Society of Rheology in 2002. Walters was elected a
Personal life
In 1961, Kenneth began dating Mary Eccles, an Aberystwyth student who had been Student ‘Rag Queen’ before they met. They were both committed Christians and married in 1963. Their mutual faith led them into lay leadership at St Michael's Anglican church in Aberystwyth. They had three children and seven grandchildren.
Death
Walters' death was announced on 30 March 2022.[5]
References
- ^ a b Kenneth Walters at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Kenneth Walters
- ^ a b c "Kenneth Walters". London: Royal Society. One or more of the preceding sentences may incorporate text from the royalsociety.org website where "all text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License." "Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies". Archived from the original on February 20, 2016. Retrieved 2016-03-09.
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: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ Staff Profile, Aberystwyth University, retrieved 2016-03-12.
- ^ "Professor Kenneth Walters, 1934 - 2022". The Learned Society of Wales. 30 March 2022. Retrieved 5 April 2022.