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Whitcombe is a surname of Old English origin.

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Stanley Ernest Whitcomb is an American physicist and was the Chief Scientist at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) project when the first direct detection of gravitational waves was made in September 2015.