 | Rainer "Rai" Weiss (/waɪs/ WYSSE, German: [vaɪs]; born September 29, 1932) is a German-born American physicist, known for his contributions in gravitational... 28 KB (2,482 words) - 17:05, 14 April 2024 |
 | contributions in gravitational physics and astrophysics. Along with Rainer Weiss and Barry C. Barish, he was awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics for... 40 KB (3,900 words) - 03:39, 14 May 2024 |
 | 1931), Italian diplomat Rainer Weiss (born 1932), American physicist Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945–1982), German film director Rainer Zitelmann (born 1957)... 4 KB (450 words) - 08:30, 8 December 2023 |
 | funded by the NSF. In 2017, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne and Barry C. Barish "for decisive contributions to the LIGO... 88 KB (8,339 words) - 15:19, 13 May 2024 |
 | waves. In 2017, Barish was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics along with Rainer Weiss and Kip Thorne "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the... 26 KB (2,311 words) - 21:55, 30 April 2024 |
Washington. The 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics was subsequently awarded to Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne and Barry Barish for their role in the direct detection of... 104 KB (12,635 words) - 17:57, 16 April 2024 |
 | MIT. Retrieved 2020-09-08. "Rainer Weiss – Facts". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2020-09-08. "MIT physicist Rainer Weiss shares Nobel Prize in physics"... 212 KB (19,643 words) - 02:02, 14 May 2024 |
Weiss or Weiß, also written Weis or Weisz, pronounced like "vice", is a German and Ashkenazi Jewish surname, meaning 'white' in both German and Yiddish... 11 KB (1,382 words) - 02:29, 23 March 2024 |
 | As a graduate student at MIT, she conducted her doctoral work under Rainer Weiss, where Mavalvala developed a prototype laser interferometer for detecting... 22 KB (1,884 words) - 13:25, 26 March 2024 |
 | cosmic events. LIGO co-founders Barry C. Barish, Kip S. Thorne, and Rainer Weiss were awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics for their ground-breaking... 44 KB (4,691 words) - 06:08, 24 April 2024 |