Seattle Times

Nobel winner key to world’s first gravitational wave discovery in WA dies

The renowned experimental physicist and Nobel laureate whose brainchild resulted in the LIGO observatory at Hanford in Eastern Washington has died. Rainer Weiss, 92, died Aug. 25 in Massachusetts, ...
The Olympian

Nobel physicist key to world’s 1st gravitational wave discovery in Eastern WA dies

Physicist who won a Nobel Prize for LIGO Hanford observatory in Eastern WA died. LIGO confirmed Einstein’s theory of relativity by detecting gravitational waves in 2015. Twin LIGO sites in WA and LA ...
The Boston Globe

Rainer Weiss, Nobel Prize-winner who helped unlock secrets of the universe, dies at 92

Nearly 60 years ago, Rainer Weiss was asked to teach a course in general relativity at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He struggled with how to explain to his students Albert Einstein’s ...