# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edmund-murton-walker
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:28:57.769Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edmund-murton-walker"
name: "Edmund Murton Walker"
slug: "edmund-murton-walker"
description: "Edmund Murton Walker was a Canadian entomologist. He described the genus Grylloblatta in 1914 which he then considered as a member of the Orthoptera. Later, it was recognised as a separate order of insects, the Grylloblattodea."
tagline: "Canadian entomologist (1877-1969)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Centennial_of_entomology_in_Canada%2C_1863-1963_-_a_tribute_to_Edmund_M._Walker_(1966)_(20578781412).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1877-10-05"
deathDate: "1969-02-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.535601333333334
  currentAttention:     0
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "إدموند ووكر"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump