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Rainer Weiss, Who Gave a Nod to Einstein and the Big Bang, Dies at 92  The New York Times Professor Emeritus Rainer Weiss, influential physicist who forged new paths to understanding the universe, dies at 92  MIT News Nobel prize winner and gravitational wave pioneer Rainer Weiss dies at 92  Space Nobel physicist key to world’s 1st gravitational wave discovery in Eastern WA …

MIT Professor Emeritus Rainer Weiss ’55, PhD ’62, a renowned experimental physicist and Nobel laureate whose groundbreaking work confirmed a longstanding prediction about the nature of the universe, passed away on Aug. 25. He was 92. Weiss conceived of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) for detecting ripples in space-time known as gravitational waves, and was later a leader of …