Ronald Drever
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Ronald Drever was a Scottish experimental physicist best known as a co-founder of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and a pioneer in the detection of gravitational waves.
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| Ronald Drever canonical | 1 |
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| instanceOf |
Scottish person
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experimental physicist ⓘ human ⓘ physicist ⓘ |
| areaOfInfluence |
experimental gravitation
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gravitational-wave observatories ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Fritz London Memorial Prize
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Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1931-10-06 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Bishopton, Renfrewshire, Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | dementia ⓘ |
| coFounderOf | LIGO NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
Barry Barish
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Kip Thorne NERFINISHED ⓘ Rainer Weiss NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| deathDate | 2017-03-07 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Glasgow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
California Institute of Technology
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University of Glasgow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era |
20th-century physics
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21st-century physics ⓘ |
| familyName | Drever NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
experimental physics
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general relativity experiments ⓘ gravitational-wave astronomy ⓘ |
| givenName | Ronald ⓘ |
| influenced | design of large-scale interferometric gravitational-wave detectors ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Drever–Hall laser frequency stabilization technique
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co-founding the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory ⓘ development of interferometric techniques for gravitational-wave detectors ⓘ pioneering work on gravitational-wave detection ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | LIGO Scientific Collaboration NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Ronald William Prest Drever NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Scottish ⓘ |
| notableStudent | Kip Thorne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
physicist
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university teacher ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Edinburgh, Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
professor of physics at the California Institute of Technology
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professor of physics at the University of Glasgow ⓘ |
| researchFocus |
gravitational-wave detectors
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laser interferometry ⓘ precision measurement ⓘ |
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