- Contains coverage of his work with gravity wave detectors, including LIGO References 1931 births 2017 deaths Scottish physicists Experimental physicists Laser researchers Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences California Institute of Technology faculty Gravitational-wave astronomy Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Kavli Prize laureates in Astrophysics Fellows of the American Physical Society British expatriate academics in the United States Scottish expatriates in the United States People from Bishopton People educated at the Glasgow Academy 20th-century Scottish scientists Alumni of the University of Glasgow