Norna Robertson (FRSE, FInstP, FRAS, FAPS) is a lead scientist at LIGO at California Institute of Technology,[1] and professor of experimental physics at the University of Glasgow.[2] Her career has focused on experimental research into suspension systems and instrumentation to achieve the detection of gravitational waves.[3]
Norna Robertson | |
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| Alma mater | University of Glasgow |
| Awards | President's Medal of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, California Institute of Technology Staff Service and Impact Award |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Gravitational waves, experimental physics |
| Institutions | LIGO, California Institute of Technology, University of Glasgow |
| Thesis | Experiments relating to the detection of gravitational radiation and to the suppression of seismic noise in sensitive measurements (1981) |
| Doctoral advisor | Ron Drever and Jim Hough |