Rainer Weiss
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In 2017, Weiss was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, along with Kip Thorne and Barry Barish, "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves".
Weiss has helped realize a number of challenging experimental tests of fundamental physics. He is a member of the Fermilab Holometer experiment, which uses a 40m laser interferometer to measure properties of space and time at quantum scale and provide Planck-precision tests of quantum holographic fluctuation. Provided by Wikipedia
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1by Patrik G Flammer, Hannah Ryan, Stephen G Preston, Sylvia Warren, Renáta Přichystalová, Rainer Weiss, Valerie Palmowski, Sonja Boschert, Katarina Fellgiebel, Isabelle Jasch-Boley, Madita-Sophie Kairies, Ernst Rümmele, Dirk Rieger, Beate Schmid, Ben Reeves, Rebecca Nicholson, Louise Loe, Christopher Guy, Tony Waldron, Jiří Macháček, Joachim Wahl, Mark Pollard, Greger Larson, Adrian L SmithGet access
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