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Encyclopedia > Ronald Drever

Ron Drever is a Scottish physicist who co-founded the LIGO project, and was a co-inventer of the Pound-Drever-Hall technique for LASER stabilization, among other accomplishments. He was inducted in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2002. The LIGO Hanford Control Room LIGO stands for Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. ... The House of the Academy, Cambridge, Massachusetts. ...


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Caltech Press Release, 9/20/2002, Richard Andersen, David Anderson, Ronald Drever, Mary Kennedy, Mark Wise (687 words)
Ronald Drever is being recognized for his work relating to gravitational physics and for his pioneering research on gravitational radiation detection.
Drever invented many of the techniques in gravitational-wave detection, including a high-precision method for controlling laser frequency now widely used in many science and technology applications.
Drever is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and is a former vice president of the Royal Astronomical Society.
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Robina Hourston Drever was born on 14 Feb 1921.
Ronald John Baird was born on 3 Feb 1944.
George Drever was born on 28 Jun 1873.
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