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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...
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  • spectroscopy. Named after R. V. Pound, Ronald Drever, and John L. Hall, the PDH technique was described in 1983 by Drever, Hall and others working at the University...
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    Prize (2016) (together with Ronald Drever and Rainer Weiss). the Kavli Prize in Astrophysics (2016) (together with Ronald Drever and Rainer Weiss). the Tomalla...
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    then by Heinz Billing and colleagues in Garching Germany, and then by Ronald Drever, James Hough and colleagues in Glasgow, Scotland. In 1980, the NSF funded...
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    Hughes–Drever experiments (also clock comparison-, clock anisotropy-, mass isotropy-, or energy isotropy experiments) are spectroscopic tests of the isotropy...
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    the COBE team received the Gruber Prize in Cosmology. In 2007, with Ronald Drever, he was awarded the APS Einstein Prize for his work. In 2016 and 2017...
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  • Mathematics of the Universe, University of Tokyo, Japan 2016 (special) Ronald Drever, Kip Thorne, Rainer Weiss For the observation of gravitational waves...
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    preprint form. In May 2016, the full collaboration, and in particular Ronald Drever, Kip Thorne, and Rainer Weiss, received the Special Breakthrough Prize...
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  • Labour Party MP and MSP, first First Minister of Scotland Professor Ronald Drever, Professor of Physics at Caltech and part of the team that first detected...
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  • University of California, Berkeley Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Ronald Drever (1931–2017)  United Kingdom "for the development of the Laser Interferometer...
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