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Rainer Weiss

American physicist

  • Rainer "Rai" Weiss
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Rainer Weiss

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Rainer Weiss after a conference in Almería.jpg
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point in time
4 June 2018
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given name
Rainer
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family name
Weiss
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award received
Harvey Prize
point in time
2016
country of citizenship
United States of America
award rationale
for the first direct detection of gravitational waves, confirming a central prediction of Einstein’s General Relativity and opening a new window to the Universe. Also for identifying the source as a merger of two giant black holes, and for the unprecedented technological achievement represented by this laser interferometer experiment. (English)
1 reference
reference URL
https://harveypz.net.technion.ac.il/harvey-prize-laureates/
Nobel Prize in Physics
point in time
2017
together with
Kip S. Thorne
Barry C. Barish
award rationale
för avgörande bidrag till LIGO-detektorn och observationen av gravitationsvågor (Swedish)
for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves (English)
2 references
reference URL
https://www.welt.de/wissenschaft/article169273822/Physik-Nobelpreis-geht-an-drei-US-Gravitations-Forscher.html
title
Höchste Auszeichnung: Physik-Nobelpreis geht an drei US-Gravitations-Forscher (German)
retrieved
3 October 2017
publication date
3 October 2017
reference URL
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2017/press-release/
title
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 (English)
language of work or name
English
type of reference
press release
publication date
3 October 2017
retrieved
5 February 2021
publisher
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
The Shaw Prize in Astronomy
country of citizenship
United States of America
point in time
2016
award rationale
for conceiving and designing the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), whose recent direct detection of gravitational waves opens a new window in astronomy, with the first remarkable discovery being the merger of a pair of stellar mass black holes. (English)
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Clarivate Citation Laureates
point in time
2016
field of work
physics
award rationale
"for the development of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) that made possible the detection of gravitational waves." (English)
1 reference
reference URL
https://clarivate.com/citation-laureates
retrieved
23 September 2023
Commons category
Rainer Weiss
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Academic Tree ID
227571
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AstroGen ID
26412
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FactGrid item ID
Q228186
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NE.se ID
rainer-weiss
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Nobel Laureate API ID
941
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Prabook ID
3359506
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