David Reitze
David Howard Reitze (born January 6, 1961 ) is an American physicist . He is a professor at the University of Florida and head of the LIGO experiment, which was used to detect gravitational waves .
Life
Reitze received his BA in Physics from Northwestern University in 1983 and his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin in 1990. After working at Bell Communications Research and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory , he was appointed to the University of Florida . From 2007 to 2011 he was the scientific spokesman for the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory ( LIGO ) experiment. In August 2011 he took a leave of absence from university to lead LIGO.
Reitze is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (2006) and the Optical Society of America . For 2017, along with Gabriela González and Peter Saulson, he was awarded the NAS Award for Scientific Discovery - all three were spokespersons for LIGO over time. He is married and has a daughter.
Fonts (selection)
- Advanced Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors. 2 vols. Edited by David Reitze, Peter Saulson , Hartmut Grote . World Scientific, New Jersey 2019 ( 100 Years of General Relativity , 5), ISBN 978-981-314-608-2 ( preview in Google Book Search ).
- Generation, Amplification, and Measurement of Ultrashort Laser Pulses III . Edited by William E. White and DH Reitze. SPIE, Bellingham, 1996 ( SPIE Proceedings , 2701), ISBN 0-8194-2075-1 .
Web links
- Homepage (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ David Reitze: David Howard Reitze. (PDF) November 2014, accessed on February 12, 2016 (English).
- ↑ zeit.de
- ^ Mark Henderson, 'Non-discovery' of space-time ripples opens door to birth of the Universe . In: The Times , August 20, 2009. Retrieved November 15, 2009.
- ↑ caltech.edu ( Memento of the original dated December 6, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ news.softpedia.com
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Reitze, David |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Reitze, David Howard (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 6, 1961 |