Leonard Parker

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Leonard Parker (born Leonard Pearlman in Brooklyn, New York) is a Distinguished Professor of physics and director of the Center for Gravitation and Cosmology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Parker established a new area of physics - quantum field theory in curved space-time. His work inspired research by hundreds of physicists around the world and has been cited in more than 2,000 research papers; it was credited in the memoirs of Soviet physicist Andrei Sakharov and helped Stephen Hawking discover the creation of particles by black holes.

He received his PhD from Harvard University in 1967. His advisor was Sidney Coleman.

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1984 Elected Fellow, American Physical Society

2000 The Parker symposium

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