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David Blair is a gravitational wave physicist who has spent more than four decades developing methods for the detection of gravitational waves. In 1984, he invented the sapphire clock. Throughout the 1990s, he established the Gingin gravitational wave research centre, which researched techniques implemented in LIGO gravitational wave detectors that ultimately detected gravitational waves in 2015. He is a founding member of the OzGrav Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery. In 2003, Blair founded the Gravity Discovery Centre, a major center focused on promoting science in Western Australia. In 2010, through collaboration with partners, he developed the Science Education Enrichment Project, which evolved into the Einstein-First Project aimed at introducing Einsteinian Physics at an early age. In 2019, he participated in a seven-nation international collaboration funded to redesign the entire school curriculum starting from primary school, to reflect modern understanding of space, time, matter, and radiation. Blair is a fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and the American Physical Society, and he shared the Breakthrough Prize with members of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration in 2016. In 2020, he was the recipient of the Prime Minister’s Prize for Science. He has published works such as “Uncovering Einstein’s New Universe,” which traces the journey of the discovery and confirmation of general relativity in Western Australia since 1922, including the discoveries of gravitational waves that revealed a universe filled with colliding black holes.
University of Western Australia • Perth, Australia
Leading research on gravitational wave detection and related fields.
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