Sciulli and Steven Frautschi, and chaired by Richard D. Wolfram's thesis committee was composed of Richard Feynman, Peter Goldreich, Frank J. John's College, Oxford, at age 17 and left in 1978 without graduating to attend the California Institute of Technology the following year, where he received a PhD in particle physics in 1980. As a young child, Wolfram had difficulties learning arithmetic. Wolfram was educated at Eton College, but left prematurely in 1976. Stephen Wolfram is married to a mathematician. Wolfram's mother, Sybil Wolfram, was a Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at Lady Margaret Hall at University of Oxford from 1964 to 1993. Wolfram's father, Hugo Wolfram, was a textile manufacturer and served as managing director of the Lurex Company-makers of the fabric Lurex.

His maternal grandmother was British psychoanalyst Kate Friedlander. Stephen Wolfram was born in London in 1959 to Hugo and Sybil Wolfram, both German Jewish refugees to the United Kingdom.

Īs a businessman, he is the founder and CEO of the software company Wolfram Research where he works as chief designer of Mathematica and the Wolfram Alpha answer engine.

He is currently an adjunct professor at the University of Illinois Department of Computer Science. In 2012, he was named a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. He is known for his work in computer science, mathematics, and theoretical physics. Stephen Wolfram ( / ˈ w ʊ l f r əm/ WUUL-frəm born 29 August 1959) is a British-American computer scientist, physicist, and businessman.

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