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Joseph Weber (May 17, 1919 – September 30, 2000) was an American physicist. He gave the earliest public lecture on the principles behind the laser and the maser and developed the first gravitational wave detectors ( Weber bars ).
Feb 12, 2016 · Her husband, the late Joseph Weber, had been the first physicist to search for the gravitational waves that Albert Einstein originally predicted in 1916. In fact, Weber, who spent his career at the University of Maryland, College Park, claimed in 1969 to see them.
Apr 25, 2016 · Joe Weber’s claims in 1969 to have detected gravitational waves, the claims that catapulted his fame, that made him possibly the most famous living scientist of his generation, were swiftly and vehemently refuted.
Oct 9, 2000 · Dr. Joseph Weber, a pioneer in two important fields of 20th-century physics, lasers and the search for waves in the fabric of space predicted by Einstein, died Sept. 30 in a hospital in...
Oct 10, 2000 · Joseph Weber, a prominent UC Irvine professor who spent much of his career chasing after the mysteries of physics and deep space, died Sept. 30 in a Pittsburgh hospital from complications...
Feb 11, 2016 · But the stalemate shifted in the late 1950s, when a young University of Maryland physicist named Joseph Weber decided to build a gravity wave detector to settle the question.
Joseph Weber was an American physicist. He gave the earliest public lecture on the principles behind the laser and the maser and developed the first gravitational wave detectors.
Dec 22, 2005 · Joseph Weber adjusts the instrumentation on one of his aluminum cylinders, with which he claimed to have detected spacetime ripples known as gravitational waves.
Nov 23, 2022 · Joseph Weber (May 17, 1919 – September 30, 2000) was an American physicist. He gave the earliest public lecture on the principles behind the laser and the maser and developed the first gravitational wave detectors (Weber bars).
An emeritus professor of physics and a senior research scientist at the University of Maryland, Joseph Weber discovered the basic principle of what would come to be called masers and lasers and gave the first public talk ever on the subject in 1952.
