Rainer Weiss is a German born American physicist who in the early 1970s worked out the design for using laser interferometry to detect gravitational waves and became a founding architect of the LIGO project. He shared the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves.
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in 1967 Rainer Weiss of MIT published an analysis of interferometer use and initiated the construction of a prototype with military funding, but it was terminated before it could become operational.
- Invented: Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory
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Infobox fields: Physics; Laser physics; Experimental gravitation; Cosmic background measurements
Member Of: National Academy of Sciences, Categories
Category:Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
Member Of: American Physical Society, Categories
Category:Fellows of the American Physical Society
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