Rainer Weiss
✶September 29, 1932
†August 25, 2025
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✶September 29, 1932
†August 25, 2025
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Rainer Weiss was a German-American physicist, known for his contributions in gravitational physics and astrophysics. He was a professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an adjunct professor at Louisiana State University. 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.
American physicist (1932–2025)
Biography from the article Rainer Weiss on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.