Dr. Gabriela Gonzalez Profile (2017)
Louisiana: The State We're In
Details
Collection:LPB
Genre: Newsmagazine
Place Covered: Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana
Copyright Holder: Louisiana Educational Television Authority
Date Issued: 2017-03-31
Duration: 00:06:06
Subjects: Science | LIGO Livingston Observatory | Gravitational waves | Gonzalez, Gabriela | Women scientists
Contributors:
- Moreau, Andre Host
- Gautreaux, Kevin Producer
- Fortenberry, Rex Q. Photographer
- Gonzalez, Gabriela Interviewee
Description
This segment from the March 31, 2017, episode of the series “Louisiana: The State We’re In” features producer Kevin Gautreaux’s profile of Dr. Gabriela Gonzalez, a physics and astronomy professor at LSU and the spokesperson for the LIGO Livingston Observatory in Livingston Parish. She discusses: her passion for science; LIGO’s work in measuring space-time; LIGO’s discovery of gravitational waves, which confirmed Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity; and their continuing research. Host: Andre Moreau