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Drever, R. W. P. (Ronald W. P.)

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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2011163804

Fuller Name

Ronald William Prest

Variants

Drever, Ronald W. P.
Drever, Ron

Identifies LC/NAF RWO

http://id.loc.gov/rwo/agents/no2011163804

Identifies RWO

https://isni.org/isni/0000000356404461

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Field of Activity
Gravitational waves

Occupation
Physicists
College teachers

Exact Matching Concepts from Other Schemes

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Ronald Drever Label from public data source Wikidata

Sources

found: Studies of orbital electron capture using proportional counters, 1959:t.p. (R. W. P. Drever; Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Glasgow, 1959)

found: California Institute of Technology Gravitational Physics Department WWW Site, Oct. 18, 2011:personal web page (Dr. Ronald W. P. Drever)

found: New York times WWW site, viewed Mar. 15, 2017(Ron Drever; Ronald William Prest Drever; b. 1931, Bishopton, Scotland; d. Mar. 7, Edinburgh, aged 85; physicist whose experimental ingenuity helped enable scientists to tap into the deepest levels of reality and detect vibrations of the void known as gravitational waves, space-time ripples that had been predicted by Einstein a century ago but had never before been seen)

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Change Notes

2011-10-21: new
2017-03-15: revised

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