1931 - 2017
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. This work was instrumental in the first detection of gravitational waves in September 2015.Drever died on 7 March 2017, aged 85, seven months before his colleagues Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne, and Barry Barish won the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on the observation of gravitational waves. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ronald Drever has received more than 77,242 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Ronald Drever is the 680th most popular physicist (down from 621st in 2019), the 4,340th most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 82nd most popular British Physicist.
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Among physicists, Ronald Drever ranks 680 out of 721. Before him are Miguel Alcubierre, Vagn Walfrid Ekman, Derek J. de Solla Price, Kees Schouhamer Immink, James Hartle, and Peter Zoller. After him are Frank Benford, Sidney Coleman, Joseph Polchinski, Herbert Goldstein, Sulamith Goldhaber, and Albert-László Barabási.
1964 - Present
HPI: 55.41
Rank: 674
1874 - 1954
HPI: 55.40
Rank: 675
1922 - 1983
HPI: 55.34
Rank: 676
1946 - Present
HPI: 55.27
Rank: 677
1939 - Present
HPI: 55.27
Rank: 678
1952 - Present
HPI: 55.19
Rank: 679
1931 - 2017
HPI: 55.18
Rank: 680
1883 - 1948
HPI: 55.08
Rank: 681
1937 - 2007
HPI: 55.01
Rank: 682
1954 - 2018
HPI: 54.78
Rank: 683
1922 - 2005
HPI: 54.76
Rank: 684
1923 - 1965
HPI: 54.75
Rank: 685
1967 - Present
HPI: 54.56
Rank: 686
Among people born in 1931, Ronald Drever ranks 399. Before him are Jerry Herman, Mark Midler, Ricardo Vidal, Teresa Brewer, Rip Taylor, and Hanoi Hannah. After him are Marjorie Jackson-Nelson, D. M. Jayaratne, Kálmán Markovits, Andrija Fuderer, John Kerr, and Ernie Banks. Among people deceased in 2017, Ronald Drever ranks 435. Before him are Walter Becker, Bernie Casey, Ricardo Vidal, Alain Jessua, Jan Szczepański, and Gilbert Stork. After him are Colin Groves, Curt Lowens, Luis Garisto, Anne Jeffreys, Spartaco Landini, and Cy Young.
1931 - 2019
HPI: 55.41
Rank: 393
1931 - 2012
HPI: 55.41
Rank: 394
1931 - 2017
HPI: 55.34
Rank: 395
1931 - 2007
HPI: 55.29
Rank: 396
1931 - 2019
HPI: 55.21
Rank: 397
1931 - 2016
HPI: 55.19
Rank: 398
1931 - 2017
HPI: 55.18
Rank: 399
1931 - Present
HPI: 55.14
Rank: 400
1931 - 2019
HPI: 55.10
Rank: 401
1931 - 2009
HPI: 55.05
Rank: 402
1931 - 2011
HPI: 54.85
Rank: 403
1931 - 2013
HPI: 54.47
Rank: 404
1931 - 2015
HPI: 54.44
Rank: 405
1950 - 2017
HPI: 55.36
Rank: 429
1939 - 2017
HPI: 55.34
Rank: 430
1931 - 2017
HPI: 55.34
Rank: 431
1932 - 2017
HPI: 55.31
Rank: 432
1939 - 2017
HPI: 55.28
Rank: 433
1921 - 2017
HPI: 55.19
Rank: 434
1931 - 2017
HPI: 55.18
Rank: 435
1942 - 2017
HPI: 55.17
Rank: 436
1925 - 2017
HPI: 55.11
Rank: 437
1945 - 2017
HPI: 54.95
Rank: 438
1923 - 2017
HPI: 54.90
Rank: 439
1944 - 2017
HPI: 54.89
Rank: 440
1928 - 2017
HPI: 54.84
Rank: 441
Among people born in United Kingdom, Ronald Drever ranks 4,340 out of 6,924. Before him are Gordon Thomas (1921), Peter Warlock (1894), Dorothy Round (1909), Giles Gilbert Scott (1880), Eddie Jobson (1955), and Bernard Bosanquet (1848). After him are Colin Groves (1942), Trent Alexander-Arnold (1998), Mark Catesby (1683), John Claudius Loudon (1783), James Allison (1968), and Talulah Riley (1985).
1921 - 2013
HPI: 55.22
Rank: 4,334
1894 - 1930
HPI: 55.22
Rank: 4,335
1909 - 1982
HPI: 55.22
Rank: 4,336
1880 - 1960
HPI: 55.21
Rank: 4,337
1955 - Present
HPI: 55.21
Rank: 4,338
1848 - 1923
HPI: 55.20
Rank: 4,339
1931 - 2017
HPI: 55.18
Rank: 4,340
1942 - 2017
HPI: 55.17
Rank: 4,341
1998 - Present
HPI: 55.17
Rank: 4,342
1683 - 1749
HPI: 55.17
Rank: 4,343
1783 - 1843
HPI: 55.16
Rank: 4,344
1968 - Present
HPI: 55.16
Rank: 4,345
1985 - Present
HPI: 55.15
Rank: 4,346
Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Ronald Drever ranks 82. Before him are John Polkinghorne (1930), John Aitken (1839), Bernard Lovell (1913), Alfred Ewing (1855), C. V. Boys (1855), and Raymond Gosling (1926). After him are John Pendry (1943), Brian Cox (1968), and Jess Wade (1988).
1930 - Present
HPI: 58.33
Rank: 76
1839 - 1919
HPI: 56.95
Rank: 77
1913 - 2012
HPI: 56.32
Rank: 78
1855 - 1935
HPI: 56.08
Rank: 79
1855 - 1944
HPI: 55.99
Rank: 80
1926 - 2015
HPI: 55.55
Rank: 81
1931 - 2017
HPI: 55.18
Rank: 82
1943 - Present
HPI: 53.73
Rank: 83
1968 - Present
HPI: 52.10
Rank: 84
1988 - Present
HPI: 41.04
Rank: 85