Professor
Ronald William Prest Drever
(
–
)
1931
2017
California Institute of Technology
;
Pasadena, CA
Physicist; Educator
Area
Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Specialty
Physics
Elected
2002
Used NMR in the earth's magnetic field to place a 10-22 limit on anisotropy of inertial mass, is inventor and co-developer of Pound-Drever-Hall laser stabilization, cofounder of the LIGO PRoject for gravitational-wave detection and led construction and development of its 40 meter prototype. Invented many aspects of gravitational-wave detectors.
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