Rainer Weiss
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Rainer Weiss receiving his Nobel Prize from H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden at the Stockholm Concert Hall, 10 December 2017.
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Photo: Pi Frisk
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Rainer Weiss after receiving his Nobel Prize at the Stockholm Concert Hall, 10 December 2017.
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Photo: Pi Frisk
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All thre Physics Laureates at the stage. From left: Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne.
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Photo: Pi Frisk
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Overview from the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall, 10 December 2017.
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Photo: Pi Frisk
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Rainer Weiss arrives at the Nobel Museum in Stockholm, Sweden, for the 2017 Nobel Laureates' Get together on 6 December 2017.
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Photo: Alexander Mahmoud
6 (of 9) Portrait of Rainer Weiss.
Photo: Bryce Vickmark
7 (of 9) 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
8 (of 9) Rainer Weiss in the lab.
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9 (of 9) Rainer Weiss in his lab in MIT's building 20 in the late 1970s, working on a cryogenically-cooled detector for Cosmic Microwave Background.
Photo: Peter Kramer Provided courtesy of MIT LIGO Laboratory
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