Members of the MIT LIGO team (from left to right): David Shoemaker, Rainer Weiss, Matthew Evans, Erotokritos Katsavounidis, Nergis Mavalvala, and Peter Fritschel. Photo: Bryce Vickmark FULL SCREEN Rainer Weiss at home early this morning, after learning that he has won the 2017 Nobel Prize in physics. Photo: M. Scott Brauer FULL SCREEN As his wife Rebecca looks on in their home, Rainer Weiss answers early morning questions from journalists assembled at the Nobel Foundation’s press conference in Stockholm, Sweden, shortly after learning that he had won the Nobel PrizeRead More

10/03/2017 The 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to three key players in the development and ultimate success of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO). One half of the prize was awarded jointly to Caltech’s Barry C. Barish, the Ronald and Maxine Linde Professor of Physics, Emeritus and Kip S. Thorne (BS ’62), the Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Emeritus; and the other half was awarded to MIT’s Rainer Weiss, professor of physics, emeritus. On September 14, 2015, the National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded LIGO made theRead More