| LC control no. | no2011163804 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Drever, R. W. P. (Ronald W. P.) |
| Variant(s) | Drever, Ronald W. P. Drever, Ron |
| Birth date | 1931-10-06 |
| Death date | 2017-03-07 |
| Place of birth | Bishopton (Scotland) |
| Place of death | Edinburgh (Scotland) |
| Field of activity | Gravitational waves |
| Affiliation | California Institute of Technology University of Glasgow |
| Profession or occupation | Physicists College teachers |
| Found in | Studies of orbital electron capture using proportional counters, 1959: t.p. (R. W. P. Drever; Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Glasgow, 1959) California Institute of Technology Gravitational Physics Department WWW Site, Oct. 18, 2011: personal web page (Dr. Ronald W. P. Drever) 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) |
| Associated language | eng |
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