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Rainer Weiss

Current Location:: Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States
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Birthplace: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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Son of Dr. med. Friedrich Adalbert Weiss; Frederick Weiss; Gertrud Weiss and Gertrude Weiss
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Father of Private; Private; Private User and Private
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Occupation: Physicist, Professor Emeritus MIT
Managed by: Judith Berlowitz
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About Rainer Weiss

Rainer Weiss is an American physicist, known for his contributions in gravitational physics and astrophysics. He is a professor of physics emeritus at MIT. He is best known for inventing the laser interferometric technique which is the basic operation of LIGO. Rainer Weiss was Chair of the COBE Science Working Group.

In 2017, Weiss was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, along with Kip Thorne and Barry Barish, "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves".

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Rainer Weiss's Timeline

1932
September 29, 1932
Birth of Rainer Weiss
Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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