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Forty-Metre Interferometer

United States of America · Science / Physics. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1980

Stanley E. Whitcomb1980

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.

Names involved

Stanley E. Whitcomb

Provenance

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