Ronald Drever
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Ronald William Prest Drever (October 1931 – 7 March 2017) was a Scottish experimental physicist. He was a Professor Emeritus at the California Institute of Technology. He co-founded the LIGO project, and was a co-inventor of the Pound–Drever–Hall technique for laser stabilization. This work was important in the first detection of gravitational waves in September 2015.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
Drever died on 7 March 2017 in Edinburgh, Scotland from complications of dementia, aged 85.[7]
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Ronald Drever outside his first laboratory at Caltech. Photo taken in 1993
Ronald Drever deciding where to build the LIGO Hanford site 1993
Ronald Drever, with the Breakthrough Prize 2017
References
- ↑ Knapton, Sarah. British scientist who played key role in gravitational waves research is suffering from dementia. The Telegraph (12 February 2016)Telegraph Media Group Limited. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
- ↑ Twilley, Nicola. Gravitational Waves Exist: The Inside Story of How Scientists Finally Found Them. . http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/gravitational-waves-exist-heres-how-scientists-finally-found-them. Retrieved 2016-02-11.
- ↑ Abbott, B.P.. Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger. Phys. Rev. Lett. 116 (6) (2016). p. 061102. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.061102.
- ↑ Naeye, Robert (11 February 2016). "Gravitational Wave Detection Heralds New Era of Science". Sky and Telescope. http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/gravitational-wave-detection-heralds-new-era-of-science-0211201644/. Retrieved 11 February 2016.
- ↑ Castelvecchi, Davide. Einstein's gravitational waves found at last. Nature News (11 February 2016). doi:10.1038/nature.2016.19361. Retrieved 11 February 2016.
- ↑ Cho, Adrian. Will Nobel Prize overlook master builder of gravitational wave detectors?. Science (2016). doi:10.1126/science.aah7350.
- ↑ Gravitational waves pioneer Ronald Drever dies