Stephen Fulling

Stephen Albert Fulling (born 29 April 1945, Evansville, Indiana) 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 (also known as the Fulling-Davies-Unruh effect).

Education and career After secondary education at Missouri's Lindbergh High School, 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.

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