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 ...
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, ...
Yahoo

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The renowned experimental physicist and Nobel laureate whose brainchild resulted in the LIGO observatory at Hanford in Eastern ...
Wall Street Journal

Rainer Weiss, Who Won the Nobel Prize for Proving Einstein Was Right, Dies at 92

The MIT physicist Rainer Weiss was never that interested in abstractions. Weiss, who died Aug. 25 in Cambridge, Mass., at age 92, told the podcast “The Searching Conversations” that, confronted with ...