Peter Saulson

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Peter R. Saulson (born October 30, 1954 in Baltimore ) is an American physicist and professor at Syracuse University . He is known as a former spokesperson for the LIGO collaboration and research on gravitational wave detectors .

Saulson studied physics at Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in 1976 (magna cum laude) and at Princeton University with a master's degree in 1978 and a doctorate in 1981. He was then a post-doctoral student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , where he started in 1985 until 1989 was Principal Research Scientist. In 1989/80 he was a visiting scientist at the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics in Boulder. He is Martin A. Pomerantz '37 Professor of Physics at Syracuse University. He was Associate Professor there from 1991 to 1999 and head of the physics department from 2010 to 2013.

In 2000/2001 he was visiting professor at Louisiana State University and in 2000 Interferometer Commissioning Leader at LIGO and Caltech .

Saulson was the first elected spokesperson for the LIGO collaboration, succeeding LIGO co-founder Rainer Weiss .

In 2016 he received the NAS Award for Scientific Discovery with Gabriela González , his former PhD student, and David Reitze . In 2003 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society .

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 ).
  • with A. Ageev, Belkis Cabrera Palmer, Antonio De Felice, Steven D. Penn: Very high quality factor measured in annealed fused silica , Classical and Quantum Gravity, Volume 21, 2004, p. 3887
  • If light waves are stretched by gravitational waves, how can we use light as a ruler to detect gravitational waves? , American Journal of Physics, Vol. 65, 1997, p. 501
  • with Gabriela Gonzalez: Brownian motion of a torsional pendulum with internal friction , Physics Letters A, Volume 201, 1995, p. 12
  • Fundamentals of Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors , World Scientific, Singapore u. a. 1994, ISBN 978-981-4350-23-5 .
  • Thermal noise in mechanical experiments , Physical Review D, Volume 42, 1990, p. 2437

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SURNAME Saulson, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Saulson, Peter R.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Baltimore