Ronald Drever

Ron Drever
Ron Drever
Born	Ronald William Prest Drever; 26 October 1931; Beeshoptoun, Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK
Dee'd	7 Mairch 2017 (aged 85); Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Naitionality	Breetish
Citizenship	Breetish
Alma mater	Varsity o Glesga (PhD)
Kent for	Laser stabilizing technique; Pioneering laser interferometric gravitational wave observation.
Awairds	Einstein Prize (2007); Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (2016); Gruber Prize in Cosmology (2016); Shaw Prize (2016); Kavli Prize (2016); Smithsonian, American Ingenuity Award (2016); Harvey Prize (2016);
	Scientific career
Fields	Pheesics, Laser pheesics, Experimental Gravitation
Institutions	Californie Institute o Technology, Varsity o Glesga
Thesis	Studies of orbital electron capture uisin proportional coonters (1959)
Wabsteid
	www.pma.caltech.edu/content/ronald-w-drever

Ronald William Prest Drever (26 October 1931 – 7 Mairch 2017) wis a Scots experimental pheesicist.

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↑ ^a ^b "Caltech Mourns the Passing of LIGO Co-founder Ronald W. P. Drever". Whitney Clavin. Caltech. 8 Mairch 2017. Retrieved 10 Mairch 2017.