William F. Meggers Gallery of Nobel Laureates

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Rainer Weiss

Rainer Weiss

Rainer Weiss

2017

Nobel Prize in Physics won for contributions to the LIGO detector and the observations of gravitational waves.

Co-awardees: 
Barry C. Barish
Kip S. Thorne

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AIP Emilio Segre Visual Archives, Gift of Rainer Weiss, W.F. Meggers Gallery of Nobel Laureates

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Rainer Weiss In his 'lair' Building 20F, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Rainer Weiss In his 'lair' Building 20F, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Photography by Tatiana Divens, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Divens Collection

L-R: Rainer Weiss, Jack Mochel, Andrew Granato, and Ansel Anderson converse at a University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Physics Department Colloquium.
L-R: Rainer Weiss, Jack Mochel, Andrew Granato, and Ansel Anderson converse at a University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Physics Department Colloquium.

Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives