David Reitze received his B.A. in Physics from Harvard, and his PhD in Physics from The University of Texas at Austin; he is known for his laser-based interferometric gravitational wave detection.
He obtained his BA in 1983 from Northwestern University, his PhD in Physics from the University of Texas at Austin in 1990, and had positions at Bell Communications Research and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, before taking his faculty position at the University of Florida. 
