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Rainer Weiss, (born September 29, 1932, Berlin, Germany), 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.

Rainer Weiss The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 . Born: 29 September 1932, Berlin, Germany Affiliation at the time of the award: LIGO/VIRGO Collaboration, ; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA . Prize motivation: “for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves” Prize share ...

Rainer Weiss Biographical . M y father came from a well-off German Jewish family in Berlin with connections to the Rathenau family that had begun the Allgemeine Electrische Gesellschaft (AEG). As a young man he had become an ardent and idealistic communist.

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 ...

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.

RAINER WEISS SB ’55; PhD ’62 (NAS) is a Professor Emeritus at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Previously Dr. Weiss served as an assistant physics professor at Tufts University and has been an adjunct professor at Louisiana State University since 2001.

Rainer Weiss, Barry C Barish and Kip S Thorne win the 2017 Nobel prize in physics – as it happened The trio have been honoured for their work on constructing Ligo and the detection of...

Rainer Weiss ’55, PhD ’62, Professor of Physics Emeritus and 2017 Nobel Laureate. After a gravitational wave—a ripple from the distant part of the universe—was detected by the LIGO team, Rai received a number of awards for the discovery.