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Professor Emeritus Rainer Weiss, influential physicist who forged new paths to understanding the universe, dies at 92

by RLE at MIT | Aug 28, 2025 | News Links

The longtime MIT professor shared a Nobel Prize for his role in developing the LIGO observatory and detecting gravitational waves. (MIT News)

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