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Ronald Drever

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British physicist (1931-2017)

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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.

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Awards 10

2016Kavli Prize in Astrophysics
2016Gruber Prize in Cosmology
2016Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
2016Harvey Prize
2016The Shaw Prize in Astronomy
2016Clarivate Citation Laureates
2007Einstein Prize
Shaw Prize
Fellow of the American Physical Society
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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David SpergelAlso won Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental PhysicsConny AertsAlso won Kavli Prize in AstrophysicsSimon WhiteAlso won Gruber Prize in CosmologyPeter BergmannAlso won Einstein PrizeJános KollárAlso won Shaw PrizeWilliam J. BoruckiAlso won The Shaw Prize in Astronomy

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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.

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United Kingdom
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Scientists
Type
Scientist
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deceased
Dates
Lived 1931 to 2017 · aged 85
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