Born: 1932-09-29 in Berlin, Germany
Gender: male
Field: Nobel Prize-winning American physicist
Rainer "Rai" Weiss is a German-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. He was Chair of the COBE Science Working Group.
Awarded on: 2017-10-03
"for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves"
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