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Stanley E. Whitcomb Biography and Timeline

Follow Stanley E. Whitcomb through 1 dated historical records for United States of America.

Stanley E. Whitcomb, historical timeline

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1980

Forty-Metre Interferometer

Physicist · Pasadena · Science / Physics

Whitcomb and Ronald Drever develop the Caltech forty-metre interferometer as a testbed for optical, suspension and control systems required by a future full-scale observatory.

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