Nobel Prize Winner and Gravitational Wave Pioneer Rainer Weiss Dies at 92

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Rainer Weiss, American physicist of German origin, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics and the Princess of Asturias Prize for Scientific and Technical Research in 2017, died at age 92, as confirmed by the Princess of Asturias Foundation.

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It is one of the great names of the physics and astrophysics of the 20th century that has just left us. Born in Germany that was just about to switch into Nazism, Reiner Weiss has made Einstein's legacy grow by contributing in an essential way to the development of astronomy...

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The discoverer of the gravitational waves was able to refute Einstein – and yet he was right to do so.

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The American physicist of German origin who won the Nobel Prize in Physics and the Princess of Asturias Prize for Scientific and Technical Research in 2017 Rainer Weiss has died, as confirmed by the Princess of Asturias Foundation.Weiss was awarded that year with Kip S. Thorne, Barry C. Barish and the Scientific Collaboration LIGO (Gravitatory Wave Observatory for Laser Interferometry). He received the award after the discovery of gravitational …