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Rainer Weiss: 50 years of LIGO and gravitational waves

06 Oct 2022

As one of the key experimentalists to conceptualize and then build one of the biggest experiments in history, Nobel-prize-winning physicist Rainer Weiss’s path to success is remarkable. Now aged 90 he talks to Sidney Perkowitz about his life and work, from the unexpected sources for scientific inspiration to the challenges of large-scale experiments

Nobel-prize winning physicist Rainer Weiss
Day to remember Rainer Weiss answers early-morning questions from journalists on 3 October 2017, just after learning that he had won the 2017 Nobel Prize for Physics, as his wife Rebecca looks on. (Courtesy: MIT/M. Scott Brauer)
Down-to-earth, unassuming, and keen to discuss his research, physicist Rainer Weiss is remarkably ea

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Sidney Perkowitz is the Candler Professor of Physics Emeritus at Emory University, US. His latest books are Physics: a Very Short Introduction (2019, audiobook forthcoming 2022) and Science Sketches: the Universe from Different Angles (2022)
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