- James E. Faller
Dr. James E. Faller is an American
physicist andinventor who specializes in the field ofGravity . He conceived the Lunar Laser Ranging Program, that shoots high powered laser beams at special retroreflectors placed on the Moon byApollo program Astronauts. He invented a Gravity Motion Sensor, called the AbsoluteGravimeter that is so sensitive to mass, that it can detect a person walking around it, by his mass. His work has been featured in many books and magazines likeNational Geographic . His research interests includegeophysics , experimental relativity, fundamental constants, and precision measurement experiments designed to look for possible invalidations of accepted physical laws at some extreme of magnitude. He is currently working on a new measurement of "G", the Newtonian constant of gravitation. He currently works for theNational Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).External links
* [http://jilawww.colorado.edu/faculty/ Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics]
* [http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/PUBS_LIB/BigG/bigg.html NOAA]
* [http://physics.nist.gov/TechAct.2006/Awards/honors.html Award Honor]
* [http://geodesy.noaa.gov/GRD/GRAVITY/ABSG.html Absolute Gravimeter]
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