Walker, Gilbert Thomas, Sir, 1868-1958

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Personal name heading	Walker, Gilbert Thomas, Sir, 1868-1958 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Walker, Gilbert Thomas, Sir, b. 1868
Associated place	India
Birth date	1868
Death date	1958
Place of birth	England
Field of activity	Climatology Long-range weather forecasting Climatic changes
Affiliation	India. Meteorological Department a Royal Meteorological Society (Great Britain)
Profession or occupation	Atmospheric scientists Climatologists
Found in	LCCN 30-16238: His Some problems of Indian meteorology, 1929 (hdg.: Walker, Sir Gilbert Thomas, 1868- ; usage: Sir Gilbert Thomas Walker) Biographical memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. Volume 8, issue 8, November 1962: Pages 166-174 (Gilbert Thomas Walker 1868-1958, was born 14 June 1868. Served as president of the Royal Meteorological Society in 1926) <https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.1098/rsbm.1962.0013> Gilbert T. Walker's enduring studies of climate variability, IISc Press : World Scientific, [2025]: ECIP preface ("Gilbert Thomas Walker was born in 1868. He received his scientific training and conducted his early research at Trinity College, Cambridge. He moved to India in 1903 to take up a position in the India Meteorological Department. (IMD). He retired from IMD and returned to England in 1924 to assume the chaired professorship at Imperial College that Sir Napier Shaw had formerly held. Knighthood was conferred on him that same year. He retired in 1934 but continued to publish research papers until the late 1940s. He died in 1958.)