Frances Ann Walker was an American chemist known for her work on heme protein chemistry.
From 1967 until 1970 she was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles, and an assistant professor at Ithaca College.
Walker examined proteins in bloodsucking insects[3] and cytochromes that transfer energy between cells.
[8] In 2000 she received the Garvan–Olin Medal for scientific accomplishments by a woman chemist from the American Chemical Society.
[9][4] In 2006 she received the Alfred Bader Award in Bioinorganic Chemistry,[10] and in 2011 she was elected a fellow of the American Chemical Society.