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Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 29 September 1932
- Died
- 25 August 2025
- Place of birth
- Berlin
- Place of death
- Cambridge
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Rainer
- Family name
- Weiss
- Field of work
- physics, astrophysics
- Occupation
- physicist, university teacher, astrophysicist
- Citizenship
- United States
- Awards
- Guggenheim Fellowship, Gruber Prize in Cosmology, Harvey Prize, Nobel Prize in Physics, Princess of Asturias Awards, Shaw Prize, Fellow of the American Physical Society, Kavli Prize in Astrophysics, Einstein Prize, Clarivate Citation Laureates, The Shaw Prize in Astronomy, honorary doctor of the Eötvös Loránd University
- doctoral advisor
- Jerrold R. Zacharias
- doctoral student
- Nergis Mavalvala, Nelson Lloyd Christensen, Rana Adhikari, Peter Fritschel, Brett Bochner, Joseph Anthony Giaime, Brian Thomas Lantz, Ryan Christopher Lawrence, Partha Saha, Michelle Stephens, Julien Sylvestre, Shaoul Ezekiel
- influenced by
- Robert H. Dicke
- interested in
- astrophysics
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- name in native language
- Rainer Weiss
- work location
- New York City
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