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1. • • Rainer Weiss (born September 29, 1932, Berlin, Germany) is a German-born American physicist who was awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize for Physics for his work on the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and for the first direct detection of gravity waves.
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   Who is Rainer Weiss?

   • Rainer Weiss has been recognized by numerous awards including: In 2006, with John C. Mather, he and the COBE team received the Gruber Prize in Cosmology. In 2007, with Ronald Drever, he was awarded the APS Einstein Prize for his work.

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   Did Rainer Weiss win a Nobel Prize in physics?

   • Boston Globe reporters Sean Smyth, John Ellement and Eric Moskowitz report that Prof. Emeritus Rainer Weiss was honored with the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics. Weiss explained that LIGO has helped change, “the way you look at the way you fit into the universe. It makes you understand what’s going on all around us in the vastness of the universe.”

   MIT physicist Rainer Weiss shares Nobel Prize in physics

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   How did Rainer Weiss discover gravitational waves?

   • Rainer Weiss at the LIGO testbed at MIT in Cambridge. He conceived the detector concept in 1972. © Ken Richardson Nearly 50 years ago, Rainer Weiss dreamed up a way to detect gravitational waves —infinitesimal ripples in spacetime predicted by Einstein's theory of gravity, general relativity.

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   Who was Frederick Weiss?

   • Weiss was born in 1932 in tumultuous Berlin. When his mother, Gertrude Loesner, was pregnant with Weiss, his father, neurologist Frederick Weiss, was abducted by the Nazis for testifying against a Nazi doctor. He was eventually released with the help of Loesner’s family.

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3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Rainer_WeissRainer Weiss - Wikipedia

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   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.

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   May 9, 2024 · Rainer Weiss (born September 29, 1932, Berlin, Germany) is a German-born American physicist who was awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize for Physics for his work on the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and for the first direct detection of gravity waves.

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   Aug 4, 2016 · Nearly 50 years ago, Rainer Weiss dreamed up a way to detect gravitational waves—infinitesimal ripples in spacetime predicted by Einstein's theory of gravity, general relativity. Last September, that dream came true as 1000 physicists working with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), two huge detectors in Livingston ...

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   Oct 6, 2022 · As one of the key experimentalists to conceptualize and then build one of the biggest experiments in history, Nobel-prize-winning physicist Rainer Weiss’s path to success is remarkable. Now aged 90 he talks to Sidney Perkowitz about his life and work, from the unexpected sources for scientific inspiration to the challenges of large-scale ...

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8. physics.mit.edu › faculty › rainer-weissRainer Weiss '55 PhD '62 » MIT Physics

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   MIT physicist Rainer Weiss shares Nobel Prize in physics. LIGO inventor and professor emeritus of physics recognized “for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves.”

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10. news.mit.edu › 2017 › mit-physicist-rainer-weissMIT physicist Rainer Weiss shares Nobel Prize in physics

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    Oct 3, 2017 · Rainer Weiss, professor emeritus of physics at MIT, has won a share of the 2017 Nobel Prize in physics, in recognition of his contribution to the direct detection of gravitational waves by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory, or LIGO.

11. www.kavliprize.org › bio › rainer-weissKavli Prize Laureate Rainer Weiss | The Kavli Prize

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    Rainer Weiss searches for gravitational waves. The Kavli Prize honors scientists for breakthroughs in astrophysics, nanoscience and neuroscience – transforming our understanding of the big, the small and the complex.