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Ronald Drever

1931 - 2017

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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 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ronald Drever has received more than 103,652 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Ronald Drever is the 717th most popular physicist (down from 679th in 2019), the 4,714th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,331st in 2019) and the 80th most popular British Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Ronald Drever ranks 717 out of 717. Before him are Charlotte Froese Fischer, Derek J. de Solla Price, Robert Bacher, Edward C. Stone, C. R. Hagen, and Howard P. Robertson. After him are John Pendry, Kees Schouhamer Immink, Erwin Hahn, Raymond Gosling, C. V. Boys, and Rudolf Haag.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Ronald Drever ranks 458. Before him are Luciano Tesi, Gordon Pirie, D. M. Jayaratne, Teresa Brewer, Ernest Schultz, and Algis Budrys. After him are Mark Midler, Marla Gibbs, Mary L. Good, Thomas Shardelow, Karan Singh, and Isidore Mankofsky. Among people deceased in 2017, Ronald Drever ranks 467. Before him are Henri Emmanuelli, Tsuyoshi Yamanaka, Cy Young, Giorgio Capitani, George Mostow, and Boris Nikolov. After him are Larissa Volpert, Michele Scarponi, Józef Grudzień, Catherine Hardy Lavender, Cécile DeWitt-Morette, and Jan Szczepański.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Ronald Drever ranks 4,714 out of 7,765. Before him are Kenneth Connor (1918), John Barbour (1316), Roger C. Field (1945), Mackenzie Bowell (1823), Joe Spence (1898), and Davey Boy Smith (1962). After him are Lancelot Hogben (1895), John Pendry (1943), Allan McNish (1969), Spottiswoode Aitken (1868), Hattie Jacques (1922), and J. I. Packer (1926).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Ronald Drever ranks 80. Before him are Alfred Ewing (1855), Peter Mark Roget (1779), John Aitken (1839), Brandon Carter (1942), Julian Barbour (1937), and Bernard Lovell (1913). After him are John Pendry (1943), Raymond Gosling (1926), C. V. Boys (1855), Jeffrey Goldstone (1933), John Houghton (1931), and Brian Cox (1968).

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