David Reitze
- January 10, 2024
- American Physicist
Quick Facts
| Full Name | David Reitze |
| Occupation | American physicist |
| Date Of Birth | Jan 6, 1961(1961-01-06) |
| Age | 63 |
| Country | United States |
| Horoscope | Capricorn |
David Reitze Biography
| Name | David Reitze |
| Birthday | Jan 6 |
| Birth Year | 1961 |
| Birth Country | United States |
| Birth Sign | Capricorn |
David Reitze is one of the most popular and richest American physicist who was born on January 6, 1961 in United States. David Reitze (born 6 January 1961 in Washington, Pennsylvania) is an American laser physicist who is Professor of Physics at the University of Florida and served as the scientific spokesman of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) experiment in 2007-2011. In August 2011, he took a leave of absence from the University of Florida to be the Executive Director of LIGO, stationed at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California. He obtained his BA in 1983 from Northwestern University, his PhD in Physics from the University of Texas at Austin in 1990, and had positions at Bell Communications Research and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, before taking his faculty position at the University of Florida. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and The Optical Society.
In 2019, Reitze co-edited a book with Peter Saulson and Hartmut Grote on the current state of gravitational-wave detectors and future upgrades. The book discusses about both LIGO and Virgo interferometer.
David Reitze Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | American physicist |
| House | Living in own house. |
David Reitze is one of the richest American physicist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, David Reitze 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
In February 2016, he, as executive director of LIGO, announced that the first direct gravitational wave observation had occurred on 14 September 2015 by the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration using the LIGO detectors in Hanford, WA and Livingston, LA.
Reitze, along with other former and present spokespersons of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, was awarded the National Academy of Sciences Award for Scientific Discovery in 2017.
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