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1 (of 16) Rainer Weiss receiving his Nobel Prize from H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden at the Stockholm Concert Hall, 10 December 2017. Copyright © Nobel Media AB 2017
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2 (of 16) Rainer Weiss after receiving his Nobel Prize at the Stockholm Concert Hall, 10 December 2017. Copyright © Nobel Media AB 2017
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3 (of 16) All thre Physics Laureates at the stage. From left: Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne. Copyright © Nobel Media AB 2017
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4 (of 16) Overview from the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall, 10 December 2017.

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5 (of 16) Rainer Weiss at the Nobel Prize banquet, 10 December 2017.

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6 (of 16) Rainer Weiss delivering his speech of thanks at the Nobel Prize banquet in the Stockholm City Hall, 10 December 2017.

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7 (of 16) Rainer Weiss photographed during Nobel Week, December 2017.

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8 (of 16) Rainer Weiss showing his Nobel Prize medal during a visit to the Nobel Foundation on 12 December 2017.

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9 (of 16) Rainer Weiss taking a closer look at his diploma during his visit to the Nobel Foundation during Nobel Week 2017.

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10 (of 16) 2017 laureates assembled at the Nobel Foundation during Nobel Week on 12 December 2017. Back row: chemistry laureate Jacques Dubochet, physics laureate Barry C. Barish medicine laureates Michael W. Young and Michael Rosbash, physics laureate Kip S. Thorne and chemistry laureate Joachim Frank. Front row: medicine laureate Jeffrey C. Hall, representatives of peace laureate ICAN Beatrice Fihn and Josefin Lind, Richard H. Thaler, chemistry laureate Richard Henderson and physics laureate Rainer Weiss.

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11 (of 16) Rainer Weiss arrives at the Nobel Museum in Stockholm, Sweden, for the 2017 Nobel Laureates' Get together on 6 December 2017. Copyright © Nobel Media AB 2017
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12 (of 16) Like many laureates before him, Rainer Weiss signed a chair at the Nobel Prize laureates' get together at the Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm on 6 December 2017.

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13 (of 16) Portrait of Rainer Weiss.

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14 (of 16) Members of the MIT LIGO team (from left to right): David Shoemaker, Rainer Weiss, Matthew Evans, Erotokritos Katsavounidis, Nergis Mavalvala, and Peter Fritschel.

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15 (of 16) Rainer Weiss in the lab.

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16 (of 16) Rainer Weiss in his lab in MIT's building 20 in the late 1970s, working on a cryogenically-cooled detector for Cosmic Microwave Background.

Photo: Peter Kramer Provided courtesy of MIT LIGO Laboratory