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Dr. Adrienne Warshawski was a hyperphysicist from Earth and one of humanity's great scientists. She was compared to Shigematsu Radhakrishnan and Joseph Buckley. (HH12) She invented the gravitational scanner, often called a warshawski in her honor, which gave warning of disturbances in hyperspace gravity waves, considerably increasing safe use of them. In combination with the existing hyper log, this made possible a substantial increase in faster-than-light equivalent speed and greatly increased the size of settlement volume which could remain in reasonably frequent contact.

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  • Dr. Adrienne Warshawski was a hyperphysicist from Earth and one of humanity's great scientists. She was compared to Shigematsu Radhakrishnan and Joseph Buckley. (HH12) She invented the gravitational scanner, often called a warshawski in her honor, which gave warning of disturbances in hyperspace gravity waves, considerably increasing safe use of them. In combination with the existing hyper log, this made possible a substantial increase in faster-than-light equivalent speed and greatly increased the size of settlement volume which could remain in reasonably frequent contact.
  • Dr. Adrienne Warshawski is a fictional character in the Honorverse, a series of military science fiction novels written by David Weber. In 3376 AD, she invented the Grav Scanner, a device that allowed for grav waves to be detected in hyperspace, thus allowing for the impeller drive to be used in hyperspace. This alone earned her enough renown that spacers refer to these detectors as "warshawskis".
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  • Dr. Adrienne Warshawski is a fictional character in the Honorverse, a series of military science fiction novels written by David Weber. In 3376 AD, she invented the Grav Scanner, a device that allowed for grav waves to be detected in hyperspace, thus allowing for the impeller drive to be used in hyperspace. This alone earned her enough renown that spacers refer to these detectors as "warshawskis". In the process of inventing the grav scanner, Warshawski learned a great deal about the nature of grav waves. This knowledge allowed her to invent the Warshawski sail, which allows starships to ride grav waves in hyperspace. With the Warshawski sail, hyperspace travel became an even faster mode of transportation.
  • Dr. Adrienne Warshawski was a hyperphysicist from Earth and one of humanity's great scientists. She was compared to Shigematsu Radhakrishnan and Joseph Buckley. (HH12) She invented the gravitational scanner, often called a warshawski in her honor, which gave warning of disturbances in hyperspace gravity waves, considerably increasing safe use of them. In combination with the existing hyper log, this made possible a substantial increase in faster-than-light equivalent speed and greatly increased the size of settlement volume which could remain in reasonably frequent contact. In 1273 PD, she developed and demonstrated, with the starship Fleetwing, an alternative use of gravitic nodes to produce a 'sail' which for the first time allowed routine use of grav waves in hyperspace, and so greatly the increased effective speed of space travel. As a bonus, it considerably reduced fuel requirements, making very long distance transport of some goods, even very massive goods, economical. It was named the Warshawski sail in her honor. In centuries to come, she was considered one of the most important scientists to have ever lived. (HH1, HH6) The Scientist-class superdreadnought SLNS Adrienne Warshawski was named after her. (HH13)
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