Rainer Weiss
Penampilan
Rainer "Rai" Weiss (/waɪs/; bahasa Jerman: [vaɪs]; lahir 29 September 1932) ialah seorang ahli fizik Amerika, yang terkenal dengan sumbangan sumbangan fizik dan astrofiziknya. Beliau adalah profesor emeritus fizik di MIT dan seorang profesor tambahan di LSU. Beliau terkenal kerana mencipta teknik interferometri laser yang merupakan operasi asas LIGO. Beliau adalah Pengerusi Kumpulan Kerja Sains COBE.[1][2][3]
Rujukan
[sunting | sunting sumber]- ^ Lars Brink (June 2, 2014). Nobel Lectures in Physics (2006–2010). World Scientific. m/s. 25–. ISBN 978-981-4612-70-8.
- ^ "NASA and COBE Scientists Win Top Cosmology Prize". NASA. 2006. Dicapai pada February 22, 2016.
- ^ Weiss, Rainer (1980). "Measurements of the Cosmic Background Radiation". Annu. Rev. Astron. Astrophys. 18: 489–535. Bibcode:1980ARA&A..18..489W. doi:10.1146/annurev.aa.18.090180.002421.
Bacaan lanjut
[sunting | sunting sumber]- Cho, A. (August 5, 2016). "The storyteller". Science. 353 (6299): 532–537. doi:10.1126/science.353.6299.532. PMID 27493164.
- Mather, J.; Boslough, J. (2008). The very first light: The true inside story of the scientific journey back to the dawn of the universe. Basic Books. ISBN 978-0-465-01576-4.
- Bartusiak, M. (2000). Einstein's unfinished symphony: Listening to the sounds of space-time. Joseph Henry Press. ISBN 978-0-425-18620-6.
Pautan luar
[sunting | sunting sumber]- Rainer Weiss' website at MIT
- LIGO Group at the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
- Rainer Weiss di Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Q&A: Rainer Weiss on LIGO's origins at news.mit.edu
- "UW Frontiers of Physics Lecture: Dr. Rainer Weiss, Fall 2016, recorded October 25, U. Washington College of Arts & Sciences". YouTube. November 10, 2016.