David Blair (physicist) | Wikipedia audio article
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David G. Blair (born 1946) is an Australian physicist and professor at the University of Western Australia and Director of the Australian International Gravitational Research Centre (AIGRC). Blair works on methods for the detection of gravitational waves.  He developed the niobium bar gravitational wave detector NIOBE, which achieved the lowest observed noise temperature participated in worldwide collaboration that set the best limit on the burst events in 2001.  He has been responsible for numerous innovations including the 1984 invention of the first sapphire clock - a super precise timepiece designed for space as well as underpinning the research of the Frequency Stability Group at The University of Western Australia.
In 2003, together with Prof. John de Laeter, Blair founded the Gravity Discovery Centre - a major Centre for the promotion of science  in Western Australia.  In 2010 Blair and collaboration partners developed an education research program called the Science Education Enrichment Project  to research the benefits of specialist exhibition centres such as the Gravity Discovery Centre.  In 2014 Blair leads the Einstein-First Project which aims to introduce Einsteinian Physics at an early age.  The project partners include Curtin University, Edith Cowan University, Graham (Polly) Farmer, U.S. Air Force Academy (USAFA) and the Gravity Discovery Centre.