"She’s become something of a rock star in the science world,” notes an article posted on February 15, 2016 on newnownext.com referring to the accomplishments of Prof Nergis Mavalvala, the expat Karachi-born MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge) professor who assisted a team of scientists in the historic detection of gravitational waves, hypothesized by Albert Einstein over a century ago. In early February, the ultrasensitive telescope her team built detected gravitational waves for the first time.
Mavalvala’s primary research has been in instrument development for interferometric gravitational-wave detectors. "In principle, a laser interferometer, with its two equally spaced mirrors,......