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He was a professor of physics emeritus at MIT. He was best known for inventing the laser interferometric technique, which is the basic operation of LIGO.[2]

Weiss was Chair of the COBE Science Working Group.[3][4][5]

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".[6][7][8][9]

Death

Weiss died at a hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on August 25, 2025, at the age of 92.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Emvogil-3.mit.edu" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-12-09. Retrieved 2017-10-09.
  2. 1 2 McCain, Dylan Loeb (August 26, 2025). "Rainer Weiss, Who Gave a Nod to Einstein and the Big Bang, Dies at 92". The New York Times. Retrieved August 26, 2025.
  3. ↑ Lars Brink (2 June 2014). Nobel Lectures in Physics (2006 – 2010). World Scientific. pp. 25–. ISBN 978-981-4612-70-8.
  4. ↑ "NASA and COBE Scientists Win Top Cosmology Prize". NASA. 2006. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
  5. ↑ Weiss, Rainer (1980). "Measurements of the Cosmic Background Radiation". Annu. Rev. Astron. Astrophys. 18: 489–535. Bibcode:1980ARA&A..18..489W. doi:10.1146/annurev.aa.18.090180.002421. S2CID 121134404.
  6. ↑ "The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017". The Nobel Foundation. 3 October 2017. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
  7. ↑ Rincon, Paul; Amos, Jonathan (3 October 2017). "Einstein's waves win Nobel Prize". BBC News. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
  8. ↑ Overbye, Dennis (3 October 2017). "2017 Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to LIGO Black Hole Researchers". The New York Times. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
  9. ↑ Kaiser, David (3 October 2017). "Learning from Gravitational Waves". The New York Times. Retrieved 3 October 2017.

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