Peter Fritschel
Peter K. Fritschel is an American physicist, laser expert and lead scientist at the gravitational wave detector LIGO , where he was significantly involved in the construction and development of the detector from the beginning.
After completing his bachelor's degree at Swarthmore College in 1984, Fritschel initially worked in the industry on lasers and completed his doctorate in 1992 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Dissertation Techniques for Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Detectors ) with Rainer Weiss . He is Director of LIGO at MIT (at its Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research) and Chief Detector Scientist of LIGO (2018).
In 2018 he received the Charles Hard Townes Award for advances in quantum mechanically limited precision measurements in the Advanced LIGO detectors, which led to the first direct observation of gravitational waves . He also received the Lancelot M. Berkeley - New York Community Trust Prize.
Web links
- Website at the MIT Kavli Institute
- Doris Salazar: 'Outshone Everything in the Universe': Scientist Talks Gravitational Waves in NYC, space.com , December 14, 2017
- Ashley Villar: Meet the AAS Keynote Speakers: Peter Fritschel, astrobites , January 11, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ for advances in quantum-limited precision measurement in the Advanced LIGO detectors, leading to the first direct detection of gravitational waves
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| SURNAME | Fritschel, Peter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fritschel, Peter K. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1961 |