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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. 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 103,132 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 17 in 2019). Ronald Drever is the 780th most popular physicist (down from 717th in 2019), the 5,255th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,703rd in 2019) and the 88th most popular British Physicist.

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  • 42.52

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.55

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.37

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Ronald Drevers by language

Over the past year Ronald Drever has had the most page views in the with 6,217 views, followed by Chinese (1,822), and Czech (738). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Catalan (95.80%), Simple English (62.39%), and Swedish (58.56%)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Ronald Drever ranks 780 out of 851. Before him are Walter Munk, Brian Cox, Jeffrey Goldstone, James M. Bardeen, Juan Ignacio Cirac Sasturain, and John Houghton. After him are Bertrand Halperin, James Hartle, Samuel King Allison, Daniel Kleppner, John Pendry, and Robert L. Forward.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Ronald Drever ranks 552. Before him are George Baker, Elliott Belgrave, Flora Nwapa, Barbara Barrie, Ken Bates, and John Houghton. After him are Tadeusz Rut, Maxine Singer, Gianuario Carta, Bill Hoskyns, Clifford Jordan, and Arne Nordheim. Among people deceased in 2017, Ronald Drever ranks 544. Before him are Kurt Marti, Kirti Nidhi Bista, Tsuyoshi Yamanaka, Michele Scarponi, Gilbert Stork, and Aleksandr Salnikov. After him are Gianuario Carta, Jiří Lanský, Cheick Tioté, Alexander Alexandrovich Volkov, George Mostow, and Hugo Budinger.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Ronald Drever ranks 5,255 out of 8,785. Before him are John Houghton (1931), W. Morgan Sheppard (1932), Emile Heskey (1978), Tony Nash (1936), Andy Taylor (1961), and Keeley Hawes (1976). After him are Teddy Sinclair (1986), Benjamin Mountfort (1825), Edward Augustus Freeman (1823), Thomas Hughes (1822), Ronald Firbank (1886), and Dan Abnett (1965).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Ronald Drever ranks 88. Before him are Gilbert Walker (1868), Balfour Stewart (1828), Charles Sheffield (1935), Brian Cox (1968), Jeffrey Goldstone (1933), and John Houghton (1931). After him are John Pendry (1943), Edward Andrade (1887), and Jess Wade (1988).

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