Francis Everitt
CW Francis Everitt (born March 8, 1934 in Sevenoaks , Great Britain ) is a British-American physicist. He is known for precision testing of general relativity .
Everitt studied at the University of London with a bachelor's degree in 1955 and a doctorate in physics in 1959. In 1955 he was a visiting scientist at the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt. From 1958 to 1960 he did research at Imperial College London and 1960 to 1962 at the University of Pennsylvania . He then went to Stanford University , where he became Senior Research Physicist in 1967, Adjunct Professor in 1974 and a research professorship from 1982.
He is the lead scientist of the Gravity Probe B experiment, started in 2004 . For forty years (with William Fairbank Sr., who died in 1989 ) , he worked on the preparation of the complex satellite experiment that was supposed to confirm the Lense-Thirring-Effect (and other frame dragging effects of ART) and the necessary low-temperature techniques confirming the predictions of ART were published in 2011.
In 1955 he received the Tyndall Prize from Imperial College London. In 1997 he received the Marcel Grossmann Award . He is a fellow of the American Physical Society . In 1976/77 he was a Guggenheim Fellow . He received the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal.
Since 1985 he has been co-director of the International Center for Relativistic Astrophysics and since 1985 he has been on the advisory board for astrophysics at NASA.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
- ↑ Everitt et al. a. Gravity Probe B: Final Results of a Space Experiment to Test General Relativity , Phys. Rev. Lett., Volume 106, 2011, p. 221101, abstract
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| SURNAME | Everitt, Francis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British-American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 8, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sevenoaks |