Birth Name:

Rainer Weiss

Male

Birth Date:

Thu, Sep 29, 1932

Time of Birth:

Unknown (using Noon)

Place of Birth:

Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Age:

91

Zodiac Sign:

Libra

Astrology Data:

Sun

6°

Lib

5'

About Rainer Weiss

Rainer "Rai" Weiss (/waɪs/; German: [vaɪs]; born September 29, 1932) is an American physicist, known for his contributions in gravitational physics and astrophysics. He is a professor of physics emeritus at MIT and an adjunct professor at LSU. He is best known for inventing the laser interferometric technique which is the basic operation of LIGO. He was Chair of the COBE Science Working Group.

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External Links:

• Rainer Weiss's website at MIT

• LIGO Group at the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research

• Rainer Weiss at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

• Q&A: Rainer Weiss on LIGO's origins at news.mit.edu

• Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: "UW Frontiers of Physics Lecture: Dr. Rainer Weiss, Fall 2016, recorded October 25, U. Washington College of Arts & Sciences". YouTube. November 10, 2016.

• Rainer Weiss on Nobelprize.org including the Nobel Lecture 8 December 2017 LIGO and Gravitational Waves I

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for Rainer Weiss: Sun 6 Libra, Moon 25 Virgo, Mercury 6 Libra, Venus 21 Leo, Mars 5 Leo, Jupiter 10 Virgo, Saturn 28 Capricorn, Uranus 22 Aries, Neptune 8 Virgo, Pluto 23 Cancer, Sun Conjunct Mercury, Sun Sextile Mars, Sun Semi Square Venus, Mercury Semi Square Venus, Mercury Sextile Mars, Venus Trine Uranus, Venus Semi Sextile Pluto, Jupiter Sesquiquadrate Saturn, Jupiter Conjunct Neptune, Jupiter Semi Square Pluto, Saturn Opposition Pluto, Uranus Sesquiquadrate Neptune, Uranus Square Pluto, Neptune Semi Square Pluto

Categories related to Rainer Weiss: Living people, Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni, September 29 births, Experimental physicists, Nobel laureates in Physics, Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences, 21st-century American physicists, 1932 births, Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Fellows of the American Astronomical Society, MIT Department of Physics alumni, German emigrants to the United States, American Nobel laureates, Jewish Nobel laureates, American people of German-Jewish descent, Kavli Prize laureates in Astrophysics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science faculty, Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School alumni, Gravitational-wave astronomy, Jewish American physicists

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