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Ronald Drever

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]

Ronald Drever Media

  • 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

  1. ↑ Knapton, Sarah (12 February 2016). "British scientist who played key role in gravitational waves research is suffering from dementia". The Telegraph. Telegraph Media Group Limited. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
  2. ↑ Twilley, Nicola. Gravitational Waves Exist: The Inside Story of How Scientists Finally Found Them. ISSN 0028-792X . http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/gravitational-waves-exist-heres-how-scientists-finally-found-them. Retrieved 2016-02-11. 
  3. ↑ Abbott, B.P.; et al. (2016). "Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger". Phys. Rev. Lett. 116 (6): 061102. arXiv:1602.03837. Bibcode:2016PhRvL.116f1102A. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.061102. PMID 26918975. S2CID 124959784.
  4. ↑ 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. 
  5. ↑ Castelvecchi, Davide; Witze, Alexandra (11 February 2016). "Einstein's gravitational waves found at last". Nature News. doi:10.1038/nature.2016.19361. S2CID 182916902. Retrieved 11 February 2016.
  6. ↑ Cho, Adrian (2016). "Will Nobel Prize overlook master builder of gravitational wave detectors?". Science. doi:10.1126/science.aah7350. ISSN 0036-8075.
  7. ↑ Gravitational waves pioneer Ronald Drever dies


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