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Ronald Drever
1931 – 2017
About this person
Wikipedia SummaryRonald William Prest Drever was a Scottish experimental physicist. He was a professor emeritus at the California Institute of Technology, co-founded the LIGO project, and was a co-inventor of the Pound–Drever–Hall technique for laser stabilisation, as well as the Hughes–Drever experiment. This work was instrumental in the first detection of gravitational waves in September 2015.
Biographical & Professional Details
Date of birth
October 26, 1931
Paisley
Date of death
March 7, 2017
Edinburgh
Citizenship
United Kingdom
Occupations & fields
physicist
Awards & honours
Kavli Prize in AstrophysicsShaw PrizeGruber Prize in CosmologyBreakthrough Prize in Fundamental PhysicsEinstein PrizeHarvey Prize
- Field and occupation
- skotský experimentální fyzik
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