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Swipe left and right to see more photos . 9 (of 9) Rainer Weiss in his lab in MIT's building 20 in the late 1970s, working on a cryogenically-cooled detector for Cosmic Microwave Background. Photo: Peter Kramer Provided courtesy of MIT LIGO Laboratory
Rainer " Rai " Weiss ( / waɪs / WYSSE, German: [vaɪs]; born September 29, 1932) is a German-born American physicist, known for his contributions in gravitational physics and astrophysics. He is a professor of physics emeritus at MIT and an adjunct professor at LSU.
Oct 6, 2022 · The US-based Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) is where gravitational waves were first observed in 2015, definitively confirming the last remaining untested prediction from Albert Einstein’s century-old general theory of relativity.
Interview with the 2017 Nobel Laureate in Physics Rainer Weiss, 6 December 2017. 0:00 - What do you enjoy about science? 6:38 - How did you become interested in science? 13:41 - What advice...
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 was divided, one half awarded to Rainer Weiss, the other half jointly to Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves"
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