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Ronald Drever

1931 - 2017

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Ronald William Prest Drever (26 October 1931 – 7 March 2017) 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. Drever died on 7 March 2017, aged 85, seven months before his colleagues Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne, and Barry Barish won the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on the observation of gravitational waves. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ronald Drever is the 770th most popular physicist (up from 781st in 2019), the 5,021st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 5,256th in 2019) and the 86th most popular British Physicist.

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Among physicists, Ronald Drever ranks 770 out of 851. Before him are Léon Rosenfeld, Leonid Sedov, Inga Fischer-Hjalmars, Robert Marshak, Ernst Stueckelberg, and Gersh Budker. After him are Paul Corkum, Juan Martín Maldacena, Samuel King Allison, C. R. Hagen, Julian Barbour, and Miguel Alcubierre.

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Among people born in 1931, Ronald Drever ranks 539. Before him are Igor Maslennikov, Géza Gulyás, Jacques Miller, Anderl Molterer, Marisa Del Frate, and Georgi Naydenov. After him are Anthony Newley, Ali Beratlıgil, Frank Gardner, Paul Motian, Gert Hofmann, and Marla Gibbs. Among people deceased in 2017, Ronald Drever ranks 516. Before him are George Mostow, Walter Becker, Bernie Casey, Ivan Stoyanov, Kurt Marti, and Lisbeth Korsmo. After him are Hugo Budinger, Anne Buttimer, Stefano Rodotà, Massimo Natili, Rhodri Morgan, and Marino Perani.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Ronald Drever ranks 5,022 out of 8,785. Before him are John Henry Davies (1864), Edward Lhuyd (1660), Victor Johnson (1883), Raymond Leppard (1927), Thomas Heywood (1574), and C. H. Dodd (1884). After him are Susan Hampshire (1937), Vashti Bunyan (1945), Conor Coady (1993), Thomas Warton (1728), John Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marquess of Bute (1958), and John Pritchard (1921).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Ronald Drever ranks 86. Before him are Peter Mark Roget (1779), John Hopkinson (1849), Balfour Stewart (1828), John Pendry (1943), Brian Cox (1968), and Charles Sheffield (1935). After him are Julian Barbour (1937), Jeffrey Goldstone (1933), John Aitken (1839), Alan Cottrell (1919), and Jess Wade (1988).

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