Rainer Weiss

Rainer Weiss (Berlino, 29 settembre 1932) è un fisico tedesco naturalizzato statunitense, specializzato in fisica della gravitazione. Nel 1984, insieme a Kip Thorne, ha fondato il progetto LIGO per la ricerca delle onde gravitazionali.^[1]

Il 3 ottobre 2017 ha conseguito il Premio Nobel per la fisica, insieme a Barry Barish e Kip Thorne, "per contributi decisivi all'osservatorio LIGO e all'osservazione delle onde gravitazionali"^[2].

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1901 - 1925	Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1901) • Hendrik Lorentz, Pieter Zeeman (1902) • Antoine Henri Becquerel, Marie Curie, Pierre Curie (1903) • John William Strutt Rayleigh (1904) • Philipp von Lenard (1905) • Joseph John Thomson (1906) • Albert Abraham Michelson (1907) • Gabriel Lippmann (1908) • Carl Ferdinand Braun, Guglielmo Marconi (1909) • Johannes Diderik van der Waals (1910) • Wilhelm Wien (1911) • Nils Gustaf Dalén (1912) • Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1913) • Max von Laue (1914) • William Henry Bragg, William Lawrence Bragg (1915) • Charles Glover Barkla (1917) • Max Planck (1918) • Johannes Stark (1919) • Charles Edouard Guillaume (1920) • Albert Einstein (1921) • Niels Bohr (1922) • Robert Millikan (1923) • Manne Siegbahn (1924) • James Franck, Gustav Hertz (1925)
1926 - 1950	Jean Baptiste Perrin (1926) • Arthur Compton, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1927) • Owen Willans Richardson (1928) • Louis de Broglie (1929) • Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (1930) • Werner Karl Heisenberg (1932) • Paul Dirac, Erwin Schrödinger (1933) • James Chadwick (1935) • Carl David Anderson, Victor Franz Hess (1936) • Clinton Joseph Davisson, George Paget Thomson (1937) • Enrico Fermi (1938) • Ernest Orlando Lawrence (1939) • Otto Stern (1943) • Isidor Isaac Rabi (1944) • Wolfgang Pauli (1945) • Percy Williams Bridgman (1946) • Edward Victor Appleton (1947) • Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett (1948) • Hideki Yukawa (1949) • Cecil Frank Powell (1950)
1951 - 1975	John Douglas Cockcroft, Ernest Walton (1951) • Felix Bloch, Edward Mills Purcell (1952) • Frits Zernike (1953) • Max Born, Walther Bothe (1954) • Polykarp Kusch, Willis Lamb (1955) • John Bardeen, Walter Houser Brattain, William Bradford Shockley (1956) • Tsung-Dao Lee, Chen Ning Yang (1957) • Pavel Alekseevič Čerenkov, Il'ja Michajlovič Frank, Igor' Evgen'evič Tamm (1958) • Owen Chamberlain, Emilio Segrè (1959) • Donald Glaser (1960) • Robert Hofstadter, Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer (1961) • Lev Davidovič Landau (1962) • Maria Goeppert-Mayer, Hans Jensen, Eugene Wigner (1963) • Nikolaj Gennadievič Basov, Aleksandr Michajlovič Prochorov, Charles Hard Townes (1964) • Richard Feynman, Julian Schwinger, Shin'ichirō Tomonaga (1965) • Alfred Kastler (1966) • Hans Bethe (1967) • Luis Álvarez (1968) • Murray Gell-Mann (1969) • Hannes Alfvén, Louis Néel (1970) • Dennis Gabor (1971) • John Bardeen, Leon Cooper, Robert Schrieffer (1972) • Leo Esaki, Ivar Giaever, Brian Josephson (1973) • Antony Hewish, Martin Ryle (1974) • Aage Niels Bohr, Ben Mottelson, James Rainwater (1975)
1976 - 2000	Burton Richter, Samuel Chao Chung Ting (1976) • Philip Warren Anderson, Nevill Francis Mott, John Hasbrouck van Vleck (1977) • Pëtr Leonidovič Kapica, Arno Penzias, Robert Woodrow Wilson (1978) • Sheldon Lee Glashow, Abdus Salam, Steven Weinberg (1979) • James Cronin, Val Fitch (1980) • Nicolaas Bloembergen, Arthur Schawlow, Kai Siegbahn (1981) • Kenneth Geddes Wilson (1982) • Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, William Alfred Fowler (1983) • Simon van der Meer, Carlo Rubbia (1984) • Klaus von Klitzing (1985) • Gerd Binnig, Heinrich Rohrer, Ernst Ruska (1986) • Georg Bednorz, Karl Alexander Müller (1987) • Leon Max Lederman, Melvin Schwartz, Jack Steinberger (1988) • Hans Dehmelt, Wolfgang Paul, Norman Foster Ramsey (1989) • Jerome Isaac Friedman, Henry Way Kendall, Richard Edward Taylor (1990) • Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (1991) • Georges Charpak (1992) • Russell Alan Hulse, Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. (1993) • Bertram Brockhouse, Clifford Shull (1994) • Martin Lewis Perl, Frederick Reines (1995) • David M. Lee, Douglas Osheroff, Robert Coleman Richardson (1996) • Steven Chu, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, William Phillips (1997) • Robert Laughlin, Horst Störmer, Daniel Tsui (1998) • Gerardus 't Hooft, Martinus Veltman (1999) • Žores Ivanovič Alfërov, Jack St. Clair Kilby, Herbert Kroemer (2000)
2001 - oggi	Eric Allin Cornell, Wolfgang Ketterle, Carl Wieman (2001) • Raymond Davis Jr., Riccardo Giacconi, Masatoshi Koshiba (2002) • Aleksej Alekseevič Abrikosov, Vitalij Lazarevič Ginzburg, Anthony James Leggett (2003) • David Gross, David Politzer, Frank Wilczek (2004) • Roy Glauber, John L. Hall, Theodor Hänsch (2005) • John Cromwell Mather, George Fitzgerald Smoot (2006) • Albert Fert, Peter Grünberg (2007) • Yōichirō Nambu, Makoto Kobayashi, Toshihide Maskawa (2008) • Charles K. Kao, Willard Sterling Boyle, George Elwood Smith (2009) • Andrej Gejm, Konstantin Novosëlov (2010) • Saul Perlmutter, Brian P. Schmidt, Adam Riess (2011) • Serge Haroche, David Wineland (2012) • François Englert, Peter Higgs (2013) • Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano, Shūji Nakamura (2014) • Takaaki Kajita, Arthur McDonald (2015) • David Thouless, Duncan Haldane, John Michael Kosterlitz (2016) • Rainer Weiss, Barry Clark Barish, Kip Thorne (2017) • Arthur Ashkin, Gérard Mourou, Donna Strickland (2018) • Jim Peebles, Michel Mayor, Didier Queloz (2019) • Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel, Andrea Ghez (2020) • Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann, Giorgio Parisi (2021) • Alain Aspect, John Clauser, Anton Zeilinger (2022) • Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, Anne L'Huillier (2023) • John Hopfield, Geoffrey Hinton (2024)

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