Rainer Weiss - Wikipedia

Rainer Weiss (Berlino, 29 settembre 1932 – Cambridge, 25 agosto 2025^[1]) è stato un fisico tedesco naturalizzato statunitense, specializzato in fisica della gravitazione. Nel 1984, insieme a Kip Thorne, fondò il progetto LIGO per la ricerca delle onde gravitazionali.^[2]

Il 3 ottobre 2017 conseguì il Premio Nobel per la fisica, insieme a Barry Barish e Kip Thorne, "per contributi decisivi all'osservatorio LIGO e all'osservazione delle onde gravitazionali".^[3]

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↑ (EN) Rainer Weiss, Who Gave a Nod to Einstein and the Big Bang, Dies at 92, su www.nytimes.com, 26 agosto 2025. URL consultato il 26 agosto 2025.
↑ CV ufficiale (PDF), su emvogil-3.mit.edu.
↑ (EN) Press release, su www.nobelprize.org, 3 ottobre 2017.

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(EN) Erik Gregersen, Rainer Weiss, su Enciclopedia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

(EN) Rainer Weiss, su nobelprize.org.

(EN) Rainer Weiss, su Mathematics Genealogy Project, North Dakota State University.

(EN) Rainer Weiss, su Goodreads.

(EN) Rainer Weiss, su IMDb, IMDb.com.

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Vincitori del Premio Principe delle Asturie per la ricerca scientifica e tecnica

Alberto Sols García (1981) • Manuel Ballester Boix (1982) • Luis Antonio Santaló Sors (1983) • Antonio García Bellido (1984) • David Vázquez Martínez, Emilio Rosenblueth (1985) • Antonio González González (1986) • Pablo Rudomín Zevnovaty, Jacinto Convit (1987) • Manuel Cardona e Marcos Moshinsky (1988) • Guido Münch (1989) • Salvador Moncada, Santiago Grisolía (1990) • Francisco Bolívar Zapata (1991) • Federico García Moliner (1992) • Amable Liñán (1993) • Manuel Elkin Patarroyo (1994) • Istituto Nazionale di Biodiversità della Costa Rica, Manuel Losada Villasante (1995) • Valentí Fuster Carulla (1996) • Equipo Investigador de Atapuerca (1997) • Pedro Miguel Etxenike Landiríbar, Emilio Méndez Pérez (1998) • Ricardo Miledi, Enrique Moreno González (1999) • Luc Montagnier, Robert C. Gallo (2000) • Jean Weissenbach, Craig Venter, John Sulston, Francis Collins, Hamilton Smith (2001) • Lawrence Roberts, Robert Kahn, Vinton Cerf, Tim Berners-Lee (2002) • Jane Goodall (2003) • Judah Folkman, Tony Hunter, Joan Massagué, Bert Vogelstein, Robert Weinberg (2004) • António Damásio, Hanna Damasio (2005) • Juan Ignacio Cirac (2006) • Ginés Morata Pérez, Peter Lawrence (2007) • Sumio Iijima, Robert Langer, George M. Whitesides, Tobin Marks, Shūji Nakamura (2008) • Martin Cooper, Ray Tomlinson (2009) • David Julius, Linda Watkins, Baruch Minke (2010) • Joseph Altman, Arturo Álvarez-Buylla, Giacomo Rizzolatti (2011) • Gregory Winter, Richard A. Lerner (2012) • Peter Higgs, François Englert (2013) • Avelino Corma, Mark E. Davis, Galen Stucky (2014) • Emmanuelle Charpentier, Jennifer Doudna (2015) • Hugh Herr (2016) • Rainer Weiss, Barry Clark Barish, Kip Thorne (2017) • Svante Pääbo (2018) • Joanne Chory, Sandra Myrna Díaz (2019) • Yves Meyer, Ingrid Daubechies, Terence Tao, Emmanuel Candès (2020) • Katalin Karikó, Drew Weissman, Philip Felgner, Uğur Şahin, Özlem Türeci, Derrick Rossi, Sarah Gilbert (2021) • Geoffrey Hinton, Yann LeCun, Yoshua Bengio, Demis Hassabis (2022) • Jeffrey Gordon, Peter Greenberg, Bonnie Bassler (2023) • Daniel J. Drucker, Jeffrey M. Friedman, Joel Habener, Jens Juul Holst, Svetlana Mojsov (2024)

V · D · M Vincitori del Premio Nobel per la fisica
1901 - 1925	Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1901) • Hendrik Lorentz, Pieter Zeeman (1902) • Antoine Henri Becquerel, Marie Curie, Pierre Curie (1903) • John William Strutt Rayleigh (1904) • Philipp von Lenard (1905) • Joseph John Thomson (1906) • Albert Abraham Michelson (1907) • Gabriel Lippmann (1908) • Carl Ferdinand Braun, Guglielmo Marconi (1909) • Johannes Diderik van der Waals (1910) • Wilhelm Wien (1911) • Nils Gustaf Dalén (1912) • Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1913) • Max von Laue (1914) • William Henry Bragg, William Lawrence Bragg (1915) • Charles Glover Barkla (1917) • Max Planck (1918) • Johannes Stark (1919) • Charles Edouard Guillaume (1920) • Albert Einstein (1921) • Niels Bohr (1922) • Robert Millikan (1923) • Manne Siegbahn (1924) • James Franck, Gustav Hertz (1925)
1926 - 1950	Jean Baptiste Perrin (1926) • Arthur Compton, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1927) • Owen Willans Richardson (1928) • Louis de Broglie (1929) • Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (1930) • Werner Karl Heisenberg (1932) • Paul Dirac, Erwin Schrödinger (1933) • James Chadwick (1935) • Carl David Anderson, Victor Franz Hess (1936) • Clinton Joseph Davisson, George Paget Thomson (1937) • Enrico Fermi (1938) • Ernest Orlando Lawrence (1939) • Otto Stern (1943) • Isidor Isaac Rabi (1944) • Wolfgang Pauli (1945) • Percy Williams Bridgman (1946) • Edward Victor Appleton (1947) • Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett (1948) • Hideki Yukawa (1949) • Cecil Frank Powell (1950)
1951 - 1975	John Douglas Cockcroft, Ernest Walton (1951) • Felix Bloch, Edward Mills Purcell (1952) • Frits Zernike (1953) • Max Born, Walther Bothe (1954) • Polykarp Kusch, Willis Lamb (1955) • John Bardeen, Walter Houser Brattain, William Bradford Shockley (1956) • Tsung-Dao Lee, Chen Ning Yang (1957) • Pavel Alekseevič Čerenkov, Il'ja Michajlovič Frank, Igor' Evgen'evič Tamm (1958) • Owen Chamberlain, Emilio Segrè (1959) • Donald Glaser (1960) • Robert Hofstadter, Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer (1961) • Lev Davidovič Landau (1962) • Maria Goeppert-Mayer, Hans Jensen, Eugene Wigner (1963) • Nikolaj Gennadievič Basov, Aleksandr Michajlovič Prochorov, Charles Hard Townes (1964) • Richard Feynman, Julian Schwinger, Shin'ichirō Tomonaga (1965) • Alfred Kastler (1966) • Hans Bethe (1967) • Luis Álvarez (1968) • Murray Gell-Mann (1969) • Hannes Alfvén, Louis Néel (1970) • Dennis Gabor (1971) • John Bardeen, Leon Cooper, Robert Schrieffer (1972) • Leo Esaki, Ivar Giaever, Brian Josephson (1973) • Antony Hewish, Martin Ryle (1974) • Aage Niels Bohr, Ben Mottelson, James Rainwater (1975)
1976 - 2000	Burton Richter, Samuel Chao Chung Ting (1976) • Philip Warren Anderson, Nevill Francis Mott, John Hasbrouck van Vleck (1977) • Pëtr Leonidovič Kapica, Arno Penzias, Robert Woodrow Wilson (1978) • Sheldon Lee Glashow, Abdus Salam, Steven Weinberg (1979) • James Cronin, Val Fitch (1980) • Nicolaas Bloembergen, Arthur Schawlow, Kai Siegbahn (1981) • Kenneth Geddes Wilson (1982) • Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, William Alfred Fowler (1983) • Simon van der Meer, Carlo Rubbia (1984) • Klaus von Klitzing (1985) • Gerd Binnig, Heinrich Rohrer, Ernst Ruska (1986) • Georg Bednorz, Karl Alexander Müller (1987) • Leon Max Lederman, Melvin Schwartz, Jack Steinberger (1988) • Hans Dehmelt, Wolfgang Paul, Norman Foster Ramsey (1989) • Jerome Isaac Friedman, Henry Way Kendall, Richard Edward Taylor (1990) • Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (1991) • Georges Charpak (1992) • Russell Alan Hulse, Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. (1993) • Bertram Brockhouse, Clifford Shull (1994) • Martin Lewis Perl, Frederick Reines (1995) • David M. Lee, Douglas Osheroff, Robert Coleman Richardson (1996) • Steven Chu, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, William Phillips (1997) • Robert Laughlin, Horst Störmer, Daniel Tsui (1998) • Gerardus 't Hooft, Martinus Veltman (1999) • Žores Ivanovič Alfërov, Jack St. Clair Kilby, Herbert Kroemer (2000)
2001 - 2025	Eric Allin Cornell, Wolfgang Ketterle, Carl Wieman (2001) • Raymond Davis Jr., Riccardo Giacconi, Masatoshi Koshiba (2002) • Aleksej Alekseevič Abrikosov, Vitalij Lazarevič Ginzburg, Anthony James Leggett (2003) • David Gross, David Politzer, Frank Wilczek (2004) • Roy Glauber, John L. Hall, Theodor Hänsch (2005) • John Cromwell Mather, George Fitzgerald Smoot (2006) • Albert Fert, Peter Grünberg (2007) • Yōichirō Nambu, Makoto Kobayashi, Toshihide Maskawa (2008) • Charles K. Kao, Willard Sterling Boyle, George Elwood Smith (2009) • Andrej Gejm, Konstantin Novosëlov (2010) • Saul Perlmutter, Brian P. Schmidt, Adam Riess (2011) • Serge Haroche, David Wineland (2012) • François Englert, Peter Higgs (2013) • Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano, Shūji Nakamura (2014) • Takaaki Kajita, Arthur McDonald (2015) • David Thouless, Duncan Haldane, John Michael Kosterlitz (2016) • Rainer Weiss, Barry Clark Barish, Kip Thorne (2017) • Arthur Ashkin, Gérard Mourou, Donna Strickland (2018) • Jim Peebles, Michel Mayor, Didier Queloz (2019) • Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel, Andrea Ghez (2020) • Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann, Giorgio Parisi (2021) • Alain Aspect, John Clauser, Anton Zeilinger (2022) • Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, Anne L'Huillier (2023) • John Hopfield, Geoffrey Hinton (2024) • John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, John M. Martinis (2025)

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