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Rainer Weiss

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Rainer Weiss

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Also known as Rainer "Rai" Weiss

American physicist (1932–2025)

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Rainer Weiss was a German individual born on September 29, 1932, who passed away on August 25, 2025. He is recognized in the Nobel Physics collection and the Nobel Laureates collection, with a count of one associated with the Nobel Prize. Additionally, he is included in the American Academy Arts Sciences collection.

Weiss is listed as an author with nine works, including *Zwischen den Büchern*, *Photos von Theodor Steinmann*, *Moonshiner*, *Durchmesser und Verteilung cerebraler Arterien bei postmortalen Arteriographien*, and *Mein Frankfurt*. Crossref data indicates he has five works. His profile is referenced by 770 other encyclopedia articles.

Synthesized by Vinony from 23 facts across 9 sources: Wikidata, Firecrawl, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Nobel Prize, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
9

Top works

  • Zwischen den Büchern
  • Photos von Theodor Steinmann
  • Moonshiner
  • Durchmesser und Verteilung cerebraler Arterien bei postmortalen Arteriographien
  • Mein Frankfurt

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
DE
Active from
1687-10-12
Active to
1750-10-16

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
6
Total plays
8

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Differential Evolution – A Simple and Efficient Heuristic for global Optimization over Continuous Spaces

    · 1997 · cited 24,700x

  2. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    · 2020 · cited 15,938x

  3. Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

    · 2016 · cited 11,688x

  4. Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    · 2018 · cited 10,989x

  5. Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines

    · 2018 · cited 9,640x

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physics2017

    “for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves”

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Encyclopedic overview

Rainer Weiss (/waɪs/ WYSSE, German: [vaɪs]; September 29, 1932 – August 25, 2025) was a German-American physicist, known for his contributions in gravitational physics and astrophysics. He was a professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an adjunct professor at Louisiana State University. He is best known for inventing the laser interferometric technique which is the basic operation of LIGO. He was Chair of the COBE Science Working Group.

In 2017, Weiss was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, along with Kip Thorne and Barry Barish, "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves".

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