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Rainer Weiss (29 de septiembre de 1932) es un físico estadounidense y profesor emérito de física en el MIT, conocido por su participación en el descubrimiento de las ondas gravitacionales, por el que fue galardonado, junto con Kip Thorne y Barry Barish, con el Premio Nobel de Física y con el Premio Princesa de Asturias de ...
Rainer " Rai " Weiss (/ waɪs / WYSSE, German: [vaɪs]; born September 29, 1932) is a German-born 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.
Rainer Weiss is a pioneer in gravitational wave detection and cosmology. He co-founded the LIGO project and received the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions.
Rainer Weiss is a German-born American physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 for his contributions to the detection of gravitational waves. Learn about his early life, education, career and achievements in this biographical sketch.
3 de oct. de 2017 · Rainer Weiss, professor emeritus of physics at MIT, has won a share of the 2017 Nobel Prize in physics, in recognition of his contribution to the direct detection of gravitational waves by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory, or LIGO.
25 de sept. de 2024 · Rainer Weiss is a German-born American physicist who won the 2017 Nobel Prize for Physics for his work on LIGO and the first detection of gravity waves. Learn about his life, education, career, and achievements in cosmology and gravitational radiation.
In this telephone interview, recorded immediately after his Nobel Prize was publicly announced, the 2017 Nobel Laureate in Physics explains why measuring the effect of gravitational waves is so very hard to achieve, despite the extraordinarily high energies involved. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Chief Scientific Officer of Nobel Media.
