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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.
Rainer Weiss (Berlino, 29 settembre 1932) è un fisico tedesco naturalizzato statunitense, specializzato in fisica della gravitazione. Nel 1984, insieme a Kip Thorne, ha fondato il progetto LIGO per la ricerca delle onde gravitazionali.
Biographical. My 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. After finishing medical school he worked in a communist workers’ hospital as a neurologist in Berlin.
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.”
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: 1/2.
9 mag 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.
3 ott 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.
