David Blair (physicist)

David Blair (physicist)

David G. Blair (born 1946) is an Australian physicist and professor of physics at the University of Western Australia and director of the Australian International Gravitational Research Centre. Blair works on methods for the detection of gravitational waves.

In 2005 - the World Year of Physics, Blair was awarded the ANZAAS Medal. He is also involved in physics education though the Gravity Discovery Centre in Western Australia. Blair coordinates new projects for the educational discovery centre and he’s developed a niobium wave gravity detector and in 1984 developed the first sapphire clock – a super precise timepiece designed for space.

Blair won the Walter Boas Medal of the Australian Institute of Physics in 1995.