[2] Arthur Earl Walker was born in 1907 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and graduated from the University of Alberta in 1930.
He undertook training at Yale University and in Amsterdam and Brussels,[3] and continued his training as instructor of neurological surgery at the University of Chicago from 1937, becoming one of a new breed of neurosurgeons who advanced the scientific study of neurology and neurosurgery.
[2] During the Second World War he worked as Chief of Neurology at Cushing General Hospital in Framingham, Massachusetts, where he developed an interest in post-traumatic epilepsy.
[3] He died on January 1, 1995, while travelling near Tucson, Arizona, apparently of a heart attack, aged 87.
[7] In 1942, he published an article describing congenital atresia of the foramens of Luschka and Magendie.