Rainer Weiss
Rainer Weiss | |
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 Weiss in December 2006 | |
| Born | September 29, 1932 |
| Education | Massachusetts Institute of Technology(BS,MS,PhD) |
| Known for | Pioneering laser interferometricgravitational wave observation |
| Awards | Einstein Prize(2007) Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics(2016) Gruber Prize in Cosmology(2016) Shaw Prize(2016) Kavli Prize(2016) Harvey Prize(2016) Princess of Asturias Award(2017) Nobel Prize in Physics(2017) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics Laser physics Experimental gravitation Cosmic background measurements |
| Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Thesis | Stark Effect and Hyperfine Structure of Hydrogen Fluoride(1962) |
| Doctoral advisor | Jerrold R. Zacharias |
| Doctoral students | Dirk Muehlner, David Owens, Patricia Downey, Daniel Dewey, Jeffrey Livas, Nelson Christensen, Peter Fritschel, Michelle Stephens, Joseph Kovalik, Joseph Giaime, Partha Saha,Nergis Mavalvala,Brett Bochner, Brian Lantz, Julien Sylvestre, Ryan Lawrence, Rana Adhikari |
| Other notable students | Bruce Allen |
Rainer "Rai" Weiss(/waɪs/;German:[vaɪs];born September 29, 1932) is aGerman-bornAmericanphysicistof partlyJewishdescent (his father was Jewish).[1]
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He is known for his works ingravitational physicsandastrophysics.He is a professor of physics emeritus atMIT.He is best known for inventing the laser interferometric technique which is the basic operation ofLIGO.
Weiss was Chair of theCOBEScience Working Group.[2][3][4]
In 2017, Weiss was awarded theNobel Prize in Physics,along withKip ThorneandBarry Barish,"for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves".[5][6][7][8]
References[change|change source]
- ↑"Emvogil-3.mit.edu"(PDF).Archived fromthe original(PDF)on 2014-12-09.Retrieved2017-10-09.
- ↑Lars Brink (2 June 2014).Nobel Lectures in Physics (2006 – 2010).World Scientific. pp. 25–.ISBN978-981-4612-70-8.
- ↑"NASA and COBE Scientists Win Top Cosmology Prize".NASA.2006. Archived fromthe originalon 3 March 2016.Retrieved22 February2016.
- ↑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.S2CID121134404.
- ↑"The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017".The Nobel Foundation. 3 October 2017.Retrieved3 October2017.
- ↑Rincon, Paul; Amos, Jonathan (3 October 2017)."Einstein's waves win Nobel Prize".BBC News.Retrieved3 October2017.
- ↑Overbye, Dennis(3 October 2017)."2017 Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to LIGO Black Hole Researchers".The New York Times.Retrieved3 October2017.
- ↑Kaiser, David(3 October 2017)."Learning from Gravitational Waves".The New York Times.Retrieved3 October2017.
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