Stephen A. Fulling

Stephen Albert Fulling
Born(1945-04-29)29 April 1945
Evansville, Indiana
NationalityU.S.
Alma mater
Known forFulling–Davies–Unruh effect
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics, Physics
Institutions
Thesis Scalar Quantum Field Theory in a Closed Universe of Constant Curvature  (1972)
Academic advisorsArthur Wightman

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.[1] He is known for preliminary work that led to the discovery of the hypothetical Unruh effect (also known as the Fulling-Davies-Unruh effect).[2]

  1. ^ "Stephen Fulling, Texas A&M University". community.wolfram.com.
  2. ^ Fulling, Davies, and Unruh were in communication, and the full significance of the mathematical phenomenon was unclear until Unruh related it to both temperature and particle detectors. In 2019 Fulling and Wilson suggested that what Davies discovered is a separate effect. Fulling, S A; Wilson, J H (2019). "The equivalence principle at work in radiation from unaccelerated atoms and mirrors" (PDF). Physica Scripta. 94 (1): 014004. arXiv:1805.01013. Bibcode:2019PhyS...94a4004F. doi:10.1088/1402-4896/aaecaa. ISSN 0031-8949. S2CID 21706009.