Rainer Weiss
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| Gender | Male |
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| Age | 91 |
| Date of birth | September 29,1932 |
| Zodiac sign | Libra |
| Born | Berlin |
| Germany | |
| Spouse | Rebecca Young |
| Children | Benjamin Weiss |
| Sarah Weiss | |
| Job | Physicist |
| Educator | |
| Education | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School | |
| Awards | Nobel Prize in Physics |
| Einstein Prize | |
| Parents | Gertrude Loesner |
| Frederick A. Weiss | |
| Siblings | Sybille Pearson |
| Notable student | Nergis Mavalvala |
| Rana Adhikari | |
| Bruce Allen | |
| Academic advisor | Jerrold R. Zacharias |
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| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 547232 |
Rainer Weiss Life story
Rainer "Rai" Weiss is an 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. He is best known for inventing the laser interferometric technique which is the basic operation of LIGO.
Physics Nobel rewards science at the smallest scales
... 2020 - Sir Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez received the prize for their 2019 - James Peebles, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz shared the prize for 2018 - Donna Strickland, Arthur Ashkin and Gerard Mourou were awarded the prize for their 2017 - Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne and Barry Barish earned the award 2016 - David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz shared the award for 2015 - were awarded the prize the discovery that neutrinos ...
Nobel physics prize: 'ground-breaking' win, for the planet, and Big Bang
... follow Paul Previous winners of the Nobel prize in physics, computer simulation of gravitational waves from two merging black holes 2018 - Donna Strickland, Arthur Ashkin and Gerard Mourou received the award for their 2017 - Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne and Barry Barish earned the award...
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