deaths
April 29, 2001
Arthur B. C. Walker Jr., American physicist and academic (born 1936)
Arthur B. C. Walker Jr.
Arthur Bertram Cuthbert Walker Jr. was an American solar physicist and a pioneer of EUV/XUV optics. He developed normal incidence multilayer XUV telescopes to photograph the solar corona. Two of his sounding rocket payloads, the Stanford/MSFC Rocket Spectroheliograph Experiment and the Multi-Spectral Solar Telescope Array, recorded the first full-disk, high-resolution images of the Sun in XUV with conventional geometries of normal incidence optics. This technology is used in solar telescopes such as SOHO/EIT and TRACE, and in the fabrication of microchips via ultraviolet photolithography.
April 29
April 29 is the 119th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 246 days remain until the end of the year.