List of Famous people with last name Drever

Ronald Drever

Ronald William Prest Drever
First Name Ronald
Last Name Drever
Born on October 26, 1931
Died on March 7, 2017 (aged 85)

Ronald William Prest Drever 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.

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