Rainer Weiss
- Prize
- Nobel Prize in Physics — 2017for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves
- Citizenship
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United States - Languages
- English
- date of birth
- 9/29/1932
- place of birth
- Berlin
- date of death
- 8/25/2025
- place of death
- Cambridge
- Lived
- 92 years
- educated at
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- academic major: physics
- academic degree: Doctor of Philosophy
- Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- doctoral student
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- Rana Adhikari
- Peter Fritschel
- Nelson Lloyd Christensen
- Ryan Christopher Lawrence
- Joseph Anthony Giaime
- Brian Thomas Lantz
- Julien Sylvestre
- Brett Bochner
- Partha Saha
- Shaoul Ezekiel
- Joseph Michael Kovalik
- David Kingston Owens
- Daniel Dewey
- Patricia Marie Downey
- Dirk Joachim Muehlner
- Jeffrey Clark Livas
- Michelle Stephens
- Nergis Mavalvala
- field of work
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- astrophysics
- physics
- member of
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- National Academy of Sciences
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- employer
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Tufts University
- work location
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- New York City
- occupation
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- physicist
- astrophysicist
- university teacher