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Bruce Allen | |
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| Born | May 11, 1959 |
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| Academic advisors | Stephen Hawking, Rainer Weiss |
| Doctoral students | Robert R. Caldwell |
Bruce Allen (born May 11, 1959) is an American physicist and director of the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Hannover Germany and leader of the Einstein@Home project for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration. He is also a physics professor at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and the initiator / project leader of smartmontools hard disk utility.[1]
He has done research work on models of the very early universe (inflationary cosmology, cosmic strings). Allen currently leads a research group working on the detection of gravitational waves. In this role, he was one of the first scientists to become aware of the initial detection of GW150914 at LIGO, in September 2015.[2] Allen's research work has been funded by the US National Science Foundation since 1987.
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- ^ Cho, Adrian (February 11, 2016). "Here's the first person to spot those gravitational waves". Science. American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). doi:10.1126/science.aaf4039. ISSN 0036-8075.