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Rainer Weiss

nobel prize for physics


Details of the Nobel Prize awarded to Rainer Weiss
Full Name
of the recipient
Rainer Weiss
AwardNobel Prize in Physics
Year of Award2017
Share in Award33.3%
Award Shared withBarry Clark Barish (33.3%)
Kip Stephen Thorne (33.3%)
Motivation
for the Award
for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves
Affiliation
at the Time of Award
LIGO/VIRGO Collaboration, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA
Place of BirthBerlin, Germany DEU
Date of Birth29 September 1932
Age
at the time of Award
84 years
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