Wilhelm Stoll, Duncan professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of 91吃瓜, has been elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.p. A native of Freiburg, West Germany, Stoll was educated at the University of Tuebingen and taught there for six years. He joined the 91吃瓜 faculty in 1960, and was named the Vincent J. Duncan and Annemarie Micus Duncan Professor of Mathematics in 1988. He was a member of the mathematics department鈥檚 executive committee and served as department chair and director of graduate studies. He received the Graduate School Award from 91吃瓜 in 1992 for his tireless service to the mathematics department. He retired in 1994.p. A specialist in differentiable and complex manifolds, Stoll is known in his field for his thorough and lengthy articles, so well known, according to members of his department, that the standard unit of measurement for the length of publications has become the 鈥淪toll,鈥� with all other articles written measured in 鈥渕icro-Stolls.鈥漰. The American Association for the Advancement of Science is the leading general scientific organization in the United States. Its fellows are elected on the basis of distinguished advancements in science or its applications.
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