Stephen A. Fulling
Stephen Albert Fulling is an American mathematician and mathematical physicist, specializing in the mathematics of quantum theory, general relativity, and the spectral and asymptotic theory of differential operators. He is known for preliminary work that led to the discovery of the hypothetical Unruh effect.Education and career
After secondary education at Missouri's Lindbergh High School, Fulling graduated in 1967 with A.B. in physics from Harvard University. At Princeton University he became a graduate student in physics and received M.S. in 1969 and Ph.D. in 1972. His thesis Scalar Quantum Field Theory in a Closed Universe of Constant Curvature was supervised by Arthur Wightman. Fulling was a postdoc from 1972 to 1974 at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and from 1974 to 1976 at King’s College London. At Texas A&M University he joined the mathematics faculty in 1976 and was promoted to full professor in 1984. In addition to mathematics, he holds a joint appointment in physics and astronomy.
In 2018 Fulling was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society. He has also been elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.Selected publications
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