Editing Gilbert Walker (physicist) (section)

==Retirement to England==
Walker continued his studies of yearly weather and climate change even after his retirement from India (in 1924 when he was knighted) and acceptance of a professorship in meteorology at [[Imperial College London]]. He had only mixed success in his original goal, the prediction of monsoonal failures; however, his theories and broad body of supporting research represented an invaluable step forward, allowing his successors in climate study to move beyond local observation and forecasting toward comprehensive models of climate worldwide. He served as president of the [[Royal Meteorological Society]] from 1926 to 1927.

Walker was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1904, long before his work on meteorology on the strength of his work in applied mathematics and applications to electromagnetism.<ref name=katz /><ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/aberrationandso00walkgoog#page/n6/mode/2up|title=Aberration and some other problems connected with the electromagnetic field|author=Walker, Gilbert T.|year=1900| publisher=Cambridge University Press}}</ref> Walker, with his talent for mathematics, was among the first to recognize the abilities of the Indian mathematical prodigy [[Srinivasa Ramanujan]] and wrote a letter to the University of Madras to support a scholarship.<ref>{{cite journal| journal= Bull. London Math. Soc. |year=1984| volume= 16 |issue=5|pages= 449–489|doi=10.1112/blms/16.5.449|author=Berndt, Bruce C.| title=Ramanujan's Quarterly Reports |s2cid=122090583 |url=https://hal.science/hal-03912911/file/45Article01.pdf }}</ref>

Walker's interest in a wide range of subjects made him note the growing insularity of specialists:<ref>{{cite journal|author=Walker, G.T.| year=1927| title=Review of "Climate through the Ages. A Study of Climatic Factors and Climatic Variations" by C. E. P. Brooks| journal=Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society|volume=53|pages=321–323| doi=10.1002/qj.49705322311}}</ref>
{{quote|There is, to-day, always a risk that specialists in two subjects, using languages full of words that are unintelligible without study, will grow up not only, without knowledge of each other's work, but also will ignore the problems which require mutual assistance.}}