Rainer Weiss
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Rainer Weiss receiving his Nobel Prize from H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden at the Stockholm Concert Hall, 10 December 2017.
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Rainer Weiss after receiving his Nobel Prize at the Stockholm Concert Hall, 10 December 2017.
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All thre Physics Laureates at the stage. From left: Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne.
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Overview from the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall, 10 December 2017.
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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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Rainer Weiss arrives at the Nobel Museum in Stockholm, Sweden, for the 2017 Nobel Laureates' Get together on 6 December 2017.
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Portrait of Rainer Weiss.
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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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Rainer Weiss in the lab.
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Rainer Weiss in his lab in MIT's building 20 in the late 1970s, working on a cryogenically-cooled detector for Cosmic Microwave Background.
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Nobel Prizes and laureates
Six prizes were awarded for achievements that have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind. The 12 laureates' work and discoveries range from proteins' structures and machine learning to fighting for a world free of nuclear weapons.
See them all presented here.