Professor
William G. Unruh
University of British Columbia
Physicist; Educator; Research agency administrator
Area
Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Specialty
Physics
Elected
2003
International Honorary Member
Founding Director of the CIAR Cosmology Program; Professor of Physics and Astronomy. Changed our understanding of the notion of particles by discovering that uniformly accelerating observers feel themselves to be immersed in a thermal bath at a nonzero temperature. Made numerous other contributions to general relativity, cosmology, quantum gravity, and quantum measurement theory.
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