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

MIT News | Aug. 26, 2025, 6:50 p.m. | Original
The longtime MIT professor shared a Nobel Prize for his role in developing the LIGO observatory and detecting gravitational waves.
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