Background
Fowler, Stephen Leroy was born on July 31, 1948 in Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States. Son of Leroy and Myrtle Sue Fowler.
Fowler, Stephen Leroy was born on July 31, 1948 in Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States. Son of Leroy and Myrtle Sue Fowler.
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, University South Carolina, 1974.
He has been used as an expert in many legal cases as well as on News and television programs such as American Broadcasting Company, National Broadcasting Company, Columbia Broadcasting System, Fox, Inside Edition, Dateline, and the Discovery Channel. His investigation videos have been used on the MythBusters program as well as The Oprah Winfrey Show. These investigations have dealt with electrostatic induced refueling fires and explosions, electrocutions in the streets, and the polonium-210 poisoning of the ex Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security) agent-Aleksandr Litvinenko.
His inventions have been featured on television programs such as Beyond 2000 and The Merv Griffin Show as well as in United States of America Today and the New York Times.
He graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of South Carolina. Fowler is the holder of many patents.
Fowler served in the United States. Air Force from 1966-1970 as an electronics technician. He spent 14 months on islands in the South China Sea on radar installations and spent the rest of his service at Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi and Charleston Air Force Base, South Carolina.
Subsequently, Fowler completed his Electrical Engineering Degree at the University of South Carolina.
In 1974 Fowler joined the Cryovac Division of West.R. Grace and Company, where he helped found a new engineering department for electron beam irradiation of polymers. In 1986 Fowler was asked to help develop Cryovac"s new electronics plastics division, ESD Products. From 1988 until 1991, he was the technical and market manager for the European Parliament Films Product line at Cryovac.
Fowler left Cryovac in 1991 to become Vice President of Sales at United Technical Products in Canton, Massachusetts and in 1992 became Vice President at Rapid-Fill United States of America, that produced a patented product that he helped invent, an inflatable dunnage package.
In 1993, Fowler helped found both ESD Flooring Systems, Incorporated., which produced conductive carpeting for ESD safe areas, and Fowler Associates, Incorporated.
Served with United States Air Force, 1966-1970, European Theatre of Operations. Member American Physics Association, Health Physics Society, American Vacuum Society.
Married Janice Lee Abernathy, September 19, 1966. 1 child, Jennifer Lee.