# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ronald-drever
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:38:34.471Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ronald-drever"
name: "Ronald Drever"
slug: "ronald-drever"
description: "Ronald 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."
tagline: "British physicist (1931-2017)"
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birthDate: "1931-10-26"
deathDate: "2017-03-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump