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Full frame In cinematography, full frame refers to the use of the full film gate at maximum width and height for 35 mm film cameras. It is sometimes also referred to as silent aperture, full gate, or a number of other similar word combinations.
Full frame digital SLR A full frame digital SLR is a digital single-lens reflex camera built for a pre-existing range of photographic lenses that takes full advantage of the image circle of those lenses by having an imager that is the full size of the film frame the lenses were designed to cover.
Full frequency response If a sound is said to have Full Frequency Response, then the sound is composed of frequencies from across the entire audible spectrum. Human hearing is limited to sounds between approximately 20 Hz and 20 KHz, depending on age.
Full Fathom Five (band) Full Fathom Five is a six-piece band from Brisbane, Australia, that performs a minimalist blend of rock and electronica that has been described as "Chemical Brothers on valium" In addition to their own albums Full Fathom Five have recorded and performed with Classical quintet Topology producing the critically acclaimed album Future Tense, and have been commissioned to remix many Australian artists such as Paul Kelly, David Bridie, Sunk Lotto and Tulipan. Collaborations with local visual artists have produced award winning film clips, powerful stage performances and highly collectable street press and poster art.
Full Frontal (film) Full Frontal is a 2002 film by Steven Soderbergh, about a day in the life of people in Hollywood. The film stars Catherine Keener, David Duchovny, Julia Roberts, and Mary McCormack and was shot on digital video in under a month using the Canon XL-1s.
Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship The Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship, International is a fellowship of churches and individuals representing various denominations or organizations (primarily from an African American Baptist background) that accepts the operation of spiritual gifts (the charismata) in the church today, in contrast to the teachings of many Baptist bodies.
Full House (airplane) Full House was the name of a B-29 Superfortress (B-29-36-MO 44-27298, victor number 83) participating in the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Assigned to the 393rd Bomb Squadron, 509th Composite Group, it was used as a weather reconnaissance plane and flew to the city of Nagasaki, designated a "tertiary target", before the final bombing to determine if conditions were favorable for an attack.
Full House chronology The Full House Chronology was begun after a discussion on various web pages, where it was agreed that Full House should have an official history, so certain bits of trivia could be explained, such as why a character said he graduated from high school when he didn't, and how he got away with dropping out of high school. In this way, it is similar to the Star Trek one in providing a history, but the reasoning behind it is somewhat different.
Full Impact Full Impact was a spreadsheet program for the Apple Macintosh computer released by Ashton-Tate in the late 1980s. Full Impact was known for excellent graphing and visual display, far better than contemporary versions of Microsoft Excel.
Full Impact Pro Full Impact Pro is a professional wrestling promotion based out of Florida. It is the sister promotion of Ring of Honor, being booked by the same booker Gabe Sapolsky, and many of the same wrestlers perform for both promotions.
Full moon Full moon is a lunar phase that occurs when the Moon is on the opposite side of the Earth from the Sun, and when the three celestial bodies are aligned as close as possible to straight line. At this time, as seen by viewers on Earth, the hemisphere of the Moon that is facing the Earth (the near side) is fully illuminated by the Sun and appears round.
Full Metal Challenge Full Metal Challenge was a television series made by RDF Media for Channel 4 in the UK and the Learning Channel in the USA. Hosted by Cathy Rogers, the show was very similar to Rogers' last show, Junkyard Wars.
Full Metal Jacket Full Metal Jacket (1987) is a film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on the novel The Short-Timers by Gustav Hasford. The film is named after the full metal jacketed bullets used in military ammunition.
Full Metal Racket Full Metal Racket (formerly 3 Hours of Power) is an Australian heavy metal radio show airing on alternative youth broadcaster Triple J. It is hosted (and has been since 2001) by Andrew Haug, who is also the drummer for Melbourne metal band Contrive.
Full Moon Features Full Moon Features is a motion picture production and distribution company headed by [B-movie] veteran Charles Band. It is most known for the direct-to-video series Puppet Master and Subspecies, as well as the innovative VideoZone featurette at the end of films through 1990 to 2000.
Full Moon Productions Full Moon Productions (or FMP666) is the longest running American black and death metal label after DSP (Deathlike Silence Productions). It was started in May of 1991 by Jon "Thorns" Jamshid from Lakeland, Florida.
Full scale In electronics and signal processing, the maximum amplitude a digital system can represent. Also known as full code, a signal has reached full scale when it has reached the maximum (or minimum) representable value.
Full screen Full screen is a term used to describe a video release of a widescreen film which has subsequently been altered in order to create a 4:3 (or 1.33:1) aspect ratio, rather than maintain the original theatrical aspect ratio through the use of letterboxing with black bars at the top and bottom of the video image.
Full screen effect A full screen effect (also known as a fullscreen effect) is a graphics technique that is applied to the entire screen. These effects are often used in a real-time applications such as: Video games, computer games, console games, or demoscene demos.
Full size van A full size van is a truck characterized by a very short hood, tall body, heavy payload capacity or passenger capacity from 7 to 15 passengers. They largely replaced the compact vans which were introduced in the early 1960s to compete with the Volkswagen bus, based on compact car components.
Full slate In politics, a full slate is an offering of a candidate for every single position available in an election. Any political party or faction that seeks to form a majority in a parliament or on a board of directors or other responsible body typically must run a full slate if only to demonstrate that they have the capacity to attract the talent to fill every position with some person, even if that person is not ideal for the job.
Full state feedback Full state feedback (FSF), or pole placement, is a method employed in feedback control system theory to place the closed-loop poles of a plant in pre-determined locations in the s-plane. Placing poles is desirable because the location of the poles corresponds directly to the eigenvalues of the system, which control the characteristics of the response of the system.
Full stop A full stop or period (sometimes stop, full point or dot), is the punctuation mark commonly placed at the end of several different types of sentences in English and several other languages. A full stop consists of a small dot placed at the end of a line of text, such as at the end of this sentence.
Full strength Full strength (also called 5-on-5) in ice hockey refers to when both teams have five skaters and one goaltender on the ice. The official term used by the National Hockey League (NHL) is at even strength — abbreviated EV on official scoresheets and goaltenders' individual stats.
Full system simulator A full-system simulator is a computer program that simulates computer systems at such a level of detail that complete software stacks from real systems can run on the simulator without any modification. A full system simulator effectively provides virtual hardware that is independent of the nature of the host computer.
Full Sail Real World Education Full Sail Real World Education is a private, for-profit college located in Winter Park, Florida, geared toward the entertainment industry and known for its around-the-clock schedule. It offers degree programs in Computer Animation, Digital Art and Design, Entertainment Business, Film, Game Design & Development, Recording Arts, and Show Production & Touring.
Full Scale Full Scale is an alternative-metal band from Perth, Western Australia. The band moved to Melbourne in the year 2000 and released two EPs, "White Arrows" and "Black Arrows" EPs on Popstar Records and toured the east coast extensively.
Full Service Network Full Service Network was a digital video trial performed by Time Warner in Orlando, Florida which launched on December 14, 1994 and lasted for 18 months. During that time, 4,000 customers had free access to the interactive digital system, which included a selection of custom services for video-on-demand, shopping, games, program guide and US Postal Service functions.
Full text search In text retrieval, full text search (also called free search text ) refers to a technique for searching a computer-stored document or database; in a full text search, the search engine examines all of the words in every stored document as it tries to match search words supplied by the user. Full-text searching techniques became common in online bibliographic databases in the 1970s.
Full Thrust Full Thrust is a science fiction strategy wargame published by Ground Zero Games of England. It is usually played with miniature figurines representing imaginary starships, although cardboard chits representing the vessels can also be used.
Full Tilt Poker Full Tilt Poker is an online poker cardroom launched in June 2004 with the involvement of a team of poker professionals, among them Howard Lederer, Phil Ivey, Andy Bloch and Chris Ferguson.London Times: Poker Face Chris Ferguson One popular feature of the site is a "Tips from the Pros" newsletter which includes tips from the professional players associated with the cardroom.
Full virtualization Full virtualization, in computer science, is a virtualization technique used to implement a certain kind of virtual machine environment: one that provides a complete simulation of the underlying hardware. The result is a system in which all software capable of execution on the raw hardware can be run in the virtual machine.
Full width at half maximum A full width at half maximum (FWHM) is an expression of the extent of a function, given by the difference between the two extreme values of the independent variable at which the dependent variable is equal to half of its maximum value.
Full-body scan Full-body scan, also known as a full-body CT scan, is a controversial type of preventive medicine. It involves a CT scan of the torso from the neck to the pelvis taken to screen patients who do not have symptoms, in order to look for diseases.
Full-court press A full-court press is a basketball term that refers to a defensive style in which the defense applies man-to-man pressure to the offensive team the entire length of the court immediately after the inbound pass. Whereas defenses usually allow the offensive team to get halfway down the court (a half-court press) or near the basket before applying strong defensive pressure.
Full-duplex ethernet While the early coaxial cable based variants of ethernet were half duplex by design, all the common variants twisted pair (10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX and 1000BASE-T) and fiber optic ethernet provide separate channels for send and receive.
Full-range A Full-range loudspeaker drive unit is defined as an acoustic driver that attempts to reproduce as much of the audible frequency range possible, with high-fidelity, within the boundaries imposed by the physical limitations of the specific design.
Full-reserve banking Full-reserve banking is a theoretically conceivable banking practice in which all deposits, banknotes, and notes in a financial system would be backed up by assets with a store of value.Full-reserve banking: Theory, fact and policy This does not imply the existence of a government body (such as a central bank) that would convert currency to a more stable type of asset if requested to do so.
Full-sky Astrometric Mapping Explorer Full-sky Astrometric Mapping Explorer (or FAME) is an astrometric satellite designed to determine with unprecedented accuracy the positions, distances, and motions of 40 million stars within our galactic neighborhood. It is a collaborative effort between the United States Naval Observatory (USNO) and several other institutions.
Full-spectrum Full-spectrum light is light that covers the entire spectrum from low infrared to ultraviolet and above; in particular, sunlight is considered full spectrum, even though the solar spectral distribution reaching Earth varies with time of day, latitude, and atmospheric conditions.
Fulla (doll) Fulla is the name of an 11 1/2 inch Barbie-like fashion doll marketed to children of Islamic and Middle-Eastern countries as an alternative to Barbie. The concept of her evolved around 1999, and she hit stores in late 2003.
Fulldome Fulldome is used to refer to immersive dome-based video projection environments. The dome, horizontal or tilted, is filled with real-time (interactive) or pre-rendered (linear) computer animations, live capture images, or composited environments.
Fulledge The Fulledge Recreational Grounds, situated in the East Lancashire town of Burnley in the UK are used for events such as festivals, fairs, etc. Fulledge is across the River Calder from Towneley High School and close by the grounds of Towneley Park.
Fuller (metalworking) A fuller is a hand held form tool usually with a wooden handle, but often an air cooled wire handle. It resembles a hammer but is not used for striking but is struck by an appropriate sledge hammer to impart its shape to the workpiece.
Fuller (weapon) A Fuller is a rounded or beveled groove on the flat side of a blade, such as a sword, knife, or bayonet (shown). Although 19th century romantic fancy referred to them as "blood grooves", their purpose is to lighten and strengthen the blade, rather than to allow blood to flow from a stabbed person.
Fuller Baptist Church Fuller Baptist Church is a Baptist church located in the town of Kettering in northern Northamptonshire, England. This church was organized over 300 years ago, and has contributed to the creation of a number of Baptist churches nearby.
Fuller Northern California Fuller Northern California is one of Fuller Theological Seminary's five regional extension centers. It has two campuses where students can earn a complete degree – one in Menlo Park and the other in Sacramento.
Fuller Theological Seminary Fuller Theological Seminary, located in Pasadena, California, is the largest multi denominational seminary in the world. A leading Christian theological institution known for its academic rigor and ethnic and denominational diversity, Fuller has over 4300 students from over 70 countries and 120 denominations.
Fuller's earth Fuller's earth is any nonplastic clay or claylike earthy material that can be used to decolorize, filter, and purify animal, mineral, and vegetable oils and greases. It usually has a high magnesium oxide content.
Fullerene The fullerenes, discovered in 1985 by researchers at Rice University, are a family of carbon allotropes named after Richard Buckminster Fuller. They are molecules composed entirely of carbon, in the form of a hollow sphere, ellipsoid, or tube.
Fullerene chemistry Fullerene chemistry is a field of organic chemistry devoted to the chemical properties of fullerenes Fullerenes and Related Structures (Topics in Current Chemistry) ISBN 3-540-64939-5 1993 Covalent fullerene chemistry François Diederich Pure &Appl. Chem.
Fullerton (Amtrak station) Fullerton Station is a passenger rail and bus station located in Fullerton, California. It is served by Amtrak's Pacific Surfliner and Southwest Chief trains, and Metrolink's 91 Line and Orange County Line trains.
Fullerton Arboretum The Fullerton Arboretum is a 10 ha (26 acre) botanical garden with a collection of plants from around the world, located on the northeast corner of the California State University, Fullerton campus in Fullerton, California, USA.
Fullerton College Fullerton College, in Fullerton, California, is the oldest community college in continuous operation in California, having been established in 1913. Fullerton College’s roots can be traced back to a time when the city of Fullerton was primarily an agricultural community devoted to growing, packing and shipping citrus products.
Fullerton, Pennsylvania Fullerton is a census-designated place (CDP) in Whitehall Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. Fullerton is a suburb of Allentown, Pennsylvania, in the Lehigh Valley region of the state.
Fullmetal Alchemist 2: Curse of the Crimson Elixir Fullmetal Alchemist 2: Curse of the Crimson Elixir (Devil of the Red Elixir in Japan) is the second role-playing game for the PlayStation 2 based on the series of the same name. It is the prequel of sorts to Fullmetal Alchemist and the Broken Angel.
Fullmetal Alchemist and the Broken Angel Fullmetal Alchemist and the Broken Angel, known in Japan as , is a role-playing game that was developed and published by the Racjin branch of Square Enix for the PlayStation 2. It is the first of the Fullmetal Alchemist games to be brought to the United States, using the FUNimation English cast who worked on the anime series.
Fullmoon Maple The Fullmoon Maple (Acer shirasawanum) is a species of maple native to the Japanese islands of Hokkaidō and Honshū. It was formely categorized as a variety of Acer japonicum and some authorities still use this classification.
Fullwidth form In CJK computing, graphic characters are traditionally classed into fullwidth (in Taiwan and Hong Kong: 全形; elsewhere: 全角) and halfwidth (in Taiwan and Hong Kong: 半形; elsewhere: 半角) characters. With fixed-width fonts (now called bi-width by Westerners), a halfwidth character occupies half the width of a fullwidth character, hence the name.
FullWrite Professional FullWrite Professional was a word processor application for the Apple Macintosh, released in late 1988 by Ashton-Tate. Though it was released a year later than promised and had a number of problems, it developed a faithful following and some amount of commercial success.
Fully Automatic Installation FAI is a non-interactive system to install a Debian GNU/Linux operating system unattended on a single computer or a whole cluster. You can take one or more virgin PCs, turn on the power and after a few minutes Linux is installed, configured and running on the whole cluster, without any interaction necessary.
Fully Automatic Time Fully Automatic Time is used when timing sporting events, most commonly athletics (Track & Field), Horse Racing, Dog Racing, or anything with a start/finish line. Also known as FAT or Fully Automatic Timing, it requires the use of a sensor attached to the starting device used to start the clock, and an evalutaion of an image to determine a time.
Fully Booked Fully Booked was a Saturday morning kids BBC Scotland TV celebrity magazine show broadcast in the Summer of 1995 to 1999. It was originally presented by Zoe Ball and Grant Stott, Zoe was then replaced by Sarah Vandenbergh, and then a whole new team arrived in the form of Chris Jarvis, Gail Porter and Tim Vincent.
Fully Buffered DIMM Fully Buffered DIMM (or FB-DIMM) is a memory solution which can be used to increase reliability, speed and density of memory systems. Traditionally, data lines from the memory controller have to be connected to data lines in every DRAM module.
Fully differential amplifier An fully differential amplifier, usually referred to as an 'FDA' for brevity, is a DC-coupled high-gain electronic voltage amplifier with differential inputs and differential outputs. In its ordinary usage, the output of the FDA is controlled by two feedback paths which, because of the amplifier's high gain, almost completely determines the output voltage for any given input.
Fully characteristic subgroup In mathematics, a subgroup of a group is fully characteristic (or fully invariant) if it is invariant under every endomorphism of the group. That is, any endomorphism of the group takes elements of the subgroup to elements of the subgroup.
Fully Informed Jury Association The Fully Informed Jury Association (FIJA) is a United States national jury education organization, incorporated in the state of Montana as a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. FIJA works to educate all citizens on their authority when they serve as jurors.
Fully Loaded Fully Loaded was an annual WWF event, which started in July 1998 and was held for another two more years. In 2001, the event's pay-per-view slot was replaced by the one-off InVasion, and eventually was replaced by Vengeance in 2002.
Fully normalized subgroup In mathematics, in the field of group theory, a subgroup of a group is said to be fully normalized if every automorphism of the subgroup lifts to an inner automorphism of the whole group. Another way of putting this is that the natural embedding from the Weyl group of the subgroup to its automorphism group is surjective.
Fully qualified domain name A fully qualified domain name (or FQDN) is an unambiguous domain name that specifies the node's position in the DNS tree hierarchy absolutely. To distinguish an FQDN from a regular domain name, a trailing period is added.
Fully-crossed design A fully crossed design is an experimental design when each observation is independent of each other and all possible combinations are tested. For example a 2 x 7 experiment would have 14 independent conditions.
Fulmar The two Fulmars are closely related seabirds occupying the same niche in different oceans. The Northern Fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis), or just Fulmar lives in the north Atlantic and north Pacific, whereas the Southern Fulmar (F.
Fulmar oilfield The Fulmar Oilfield is situated 312 km east of Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom in block number 30/16 and 30/11b. It is operated by Royal Dutch Shell and licensed by Shell/Esso, Amoco, Amerada and North Sea Inc.
Fulmar, Archbishop of Trier Fulmar of Karden (circa 1135 – 1189), also spelled Folmar or Vollmar, was the Archbishop of Trier from 1183 and the last to not also be a prince elector. He opposed the emperor in the late twelfth-century phase of the Investiture Controversy.
Fulmarine petrel The fulmarine petrels or fulmar-petrels are a distinct group of petrels within the procellariid family. They are the most variable of the four groups within the Procellariidae, differing greatly in size and biology.
Fulmer Fulmer is a village in south Buckinghamshire, England. Originally a village in its own right, today it is considered by many to be a part of Gerrards Cross, though residents of Fulmer like to maintain that it is a separate place.
Fulmore Middle School Fulmore Middle School is a middle school located at 201 East Mary Street in Austin, Texas of the Austin Independent School District], Fulmore is an urban school with approximately 800 students. The school serves grades 6-8.
Fulton Burley Fulton Burley is an Irish-Canadian performer, most widely known for his work in Disneyland. Born in Tipperary, Ireland, and raised in Ontario, Canada, Fulton came to the United States in 1943 after a telephone audition landed him the singing lead in Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe Revue on Broadway.
Fulton County Railroad The Fulton County Railroad is a privately owned Class III railroad that runs from Rochester to Argos, Indiana, where it connects with the Norfolk Southern Railroad. It is a switching railroad that provides service to only one customer, Wilson Fertilizer and Grain, in Rochester.
Fulton County Railway The Fulton County Railway (FCR) began operations in 2004, operating on about 55 miles of track owned by CSX Transportation in Georgia. This railroad should not be confused with the Fulton County Railroad which operates in Indiana.
Fulton County School System The Fulton County School System serves the area of Fulton County, Georgia, outside the Atlanta city limits. In addition to unincorporated areas, Fulton County Schools serve the cities of Alpharetta, College Park, East Point, Fairburn, Hapeville, Mountain Park, Palmetto, Roswell, Sandy Springs, Union City, Milton, and Johns Creek
Fulton Ferry, Brooklyn Fulton Ferry is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The neighborhood is named for a prominent ferry line crossing the East River between Manhattan and Brooklyn, and is also the name of the ferry slip on the Brooklyn side.
Fulton Hill Fulton Hill is a neighborhood located in the East End of Richmond, Virginia. The name is used for the area stretching from Gillies Creek to the Richmond city limits, often including Fulton Bottom and Montrose Heights.
Fulton Huxtable Fulton Huxtable, formerly a Purdue political philosophy teacher, is author of Fatal Blindness, which attacks most government functions as statist intrusions into personal liberty. His domestic politics appear to be similar to those of Ayn Rand, although Huxtable seems even less sympathetic to government's very existence.
Fulton J. Sheen The Servant Of God, Archbishop Fulton John Sheen (May 8, 1895 – December 9, 1979) was American television's first preacher of note, hosting Life Is Worth Living in the early 1950s on the DuMont Television Network.
Fulton Lovell Fulton Lovell, a resident of Rabun County, Georgia was the director of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources Game and Fish Division, as well as head of the Georgia State Patrol, in the late 1960's. He was the visionary behind the establishment of what is now Moccasin Creek State Park.
Fulton Mall Fulton Mall is a street mall in Downtown Brooklyn that runs on Fulton Street between Flatbush Avenue & Adams Street that has a number of small businesses within it along with some chain stores, such as Foot Locker, The Sprint Store, Toys "R" Us & Macy's. The area is part of Brooklyn Community Board 2.
Fulton Opera House The Fulton Opera House was built in October 1852 when Christopher Hager constructed the 4-story Fulton Hall on the exercise yards of the original site of the Lancaster County Prison. The opera house quickly became an important cultural center for Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Fulton Street (Brooklyn) Fulton Street, named after engineer Robert Fulton, exists mainly in two parts in what are today two boroughs of New York City which Fulton linked by his steam ferries, and each segment has its own distinct identity. This entry deals with Fulton Street in Brooklyn, which now begins at the intersection of Adams Street and Joralemon Street in Brooklyn Heights.
Fulton Street (IND Crosstown Line) Fulton Street is a station on the IND Crosstown Line of the New York City Subway. Located on Lafayette Avenue between South Portland Avenue and Fulton Street in Brooklyn, it is served by the train at all times.
Fulton Street Line (Brooklyn surface) The Fulton Street Line or East New York Line is a public transit line in Brooklyn, New York City, United States along Fulton Street between Fulton Ferry and East New York. Originally a streetcar line, it is now the B25 bus, operated by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority out of the East New York Bus Depot.
Fulton Street Transit Center The Fulton Street Transit Center is a $750 million project in New York City that will improve access to and connections between 12 subway services stopping at Manhattan's Fulton Street, PATH service and the World Trade Center station in Lower Manhattan. Construction began in 2005 and is now scheduled to be finished in 2009.
Fulton Walker Fulton Luther Walker (born April 30, 1958, Martinsburg, West Virginia) is a former professional American football defensive back who played for the Miami Dolphins (1981-1985) and Los Angeles Raiders (1985-1986) in the NFL. Before his NFL career, he played for the West Virginia Mountaineers.
Fulton-Hansen connectedness theorem In mathematics, the Fulton-Hansen connectedness theorem is a result from intersection theory in algebraic geometry, for the case of subvarieties of projective space with codimension large enough to make the intersection have components of dimension at least 1.
Fulton, Minneapolis Fulton is a neighborhood in the Southwest community in Minneapolis. Its boundaries are West 47th Street to the north, Penn Avenue South to the east, West 54th Street to the south, and France Avenue South to the west.
Fulvestrant Fulvestrant, also known as ICI 182,780, and "Faslodex" is a drug treatment of hormone receptor positive metastatic breast cancer in post-menopausal women with disease progression following anti-estrogen therapy. It is an estrogen receptor antagonist with no agonist effects, which works both by down-regulating and by degrading the estrogen receptor.
Fulvia Plautilla Publia Fulvia Plautilla, Fulvia Plautilla or Plautilla (around 188/189 - early 212) was a Roman Princess, briefly Roman Empress and the only wife to Roman Emperor Caracalla. Caracalla was her paternal second cousin.
Fulvio Ballabio Fulvio Ballabio (born 8 October 1954) is a race car driver born in Milan, Italy. He raced in Formula 2 in 1983, in Formula 3000 in 1986 and 6 starts in CART from 1987 to 1989 for Dick Simon racing and Dale Coyne Racing.
Fulvio Cecere Fulvio Cecere was born on March 11, 1960 in Canada to Italian parents. Fulvio attended Southwestern University School of Law in Los Angeles, but only after one year he realized that not law but acting was his true calling.
Fulvio melia Fulvio Melia is Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Arizona and Science Editor of the Astrophysical Journal. A former Presidential Young Investigator and Sloan Research Fellow, he is the author of more than 170 articles on theoretical astrophysics and of a textbook, Electrodynamics.

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