Rainer Weiss
Affiliations: | 1964- | Physics | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States |
Area:
Experimental Atomic Physics, Atomic Clocks, Laser Physics,Experimental Gravitation, Millimeter and Sub - millimeter, Astronomy, Cosmic Background Measurements,Website:
http://web.mit.edu/physics/people/faculty/weiss_rainer.htmlGoogle:
"Rainer Weiss"Bio:
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2017/weiss/biographical/
http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/members/49279.html
https://history.aip.org/phn/11603006.html
http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechOH:OH_Weiss_R
https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/rainer-weiss/
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 was divided, one half awarded to Rainer Weiss, the other half jointly to Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves.
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Parents
Sign in to add mentor| John G. King | grad student | 1962 | MIT (Physics Tree) | |
| Jerrold R. Zacharias | grad student | 1962 | MIT (Physics Tree) | |
| (Stark effect and hyperfine structure of hydrogen fluoride) | ||||
| Robert H. Dicke | post-doc | Princeton (Physics Tree) | ||
Children
Sign in to add trainee| Robert Paul Bennett | research assistant | MIT (Physics Tree) | |
| Gary A. Mamon | research assistant | 1978-1979 | MIT (Physics Tree) |
| Giordon H Stark | research assistant | 2011-2011 | MIT (Physics Tree) |
| Mark Halpern | grad student | 1983 | MIT (Physics Tree) |
| Peter Kurt Fritschel | grad student | 1992 | MIT (Physics Tree) |
| Joseph Anthony Giaime | grad student | 1995 | MIT (Physics Tree) |
| Nelson L Christensen | grad student | 1990-1995 | MIT (Physics Tree) |
| Nergis Mavalvala | grad student | 1997 | MIT (Physics Tree) |
| Rana Adhikari | grad student | 2004 | MIT (Physics Tree) |
| Keisuke Goda | post-doc | (E-Tree) | |
| Stephan S. Meyer | post-doc | 1979-1984 | MIT (Physics Tree) |
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| Richardson JW, Kwon O, Gustafson HR, et al. (2021) Interferometric Constraints on Spacelike Coherent Rotational Fluctuations. Physical Review Letters. 126: 241301 |
| Brooks AF, Vajente G, Yamamoto H, et al. (2021) Point absorbers in Advanced LIGO. Applied Optics. 60: 4047-4063 |
| Abbott R, Abbott TD, Abraham S, et al. (2020) GW190521: A Binary Black Hole Merger with a Total Mass of 150 M_{⊙}. Physical Review Letters. 125: 101102 |
| Abbott R, Abbott TD, Abraham S, et al. (2020) Properties and Astrophysical Implications of the 150 M ⊙ Binary Black Hole Merger GW190521 The Astrophysical Journal. 900 |
| Abbott R, Abbott TD, Abraham S, et al. (2020) GW190814: Gravitational Waves from the Coalescence of a 23 Solar Mass Black Hole with a 2.6 Solar Mass Compact Object The Astrophysical Journal. 896: 1-20 |
| Abbott BP, Abbott R, Abbott TD, et al. (2020) GW190425: Observation of a Compact Binary Coalescence with Total Mass ∼ 3.4 M ⊙ The Astrophysical Journal. 892: L3 |
| Monitor FGB, Hamburg R, Fletcher C, et al. (2020) A joint Fermi-GBM and LIGO/Virgo analysis of compact binary mergers from the first and second gravitational-wave observing runs The Astrophysical Journal. 893: 100 |
| Buikema A, Cahillane C, Mansell G, et al. (2020) Sensitivity and performance of the Advanced LIGO detectors in the third observing run Physical Review D. 102 |
| Abbott R, Abbott TD, Abraham S, et al. (2020) GW190412: Observation of a Binary-Black-Hole Coalescence with Asymmetric Masses Physical Review D. 102: 4301501-4301529 |
| Adhikari RX, Arai K, Brooks AF, et al. (2020) A cryogenic silicon interferometer for gravitational-wave detection Classical and Quantum Gravity. 37: 165003 |