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complete name:	Rainer Weiss
nobel prize:	physics
award year:	2017
together with:	Kip S. Thorne
together with:	Barry C. Barish
prize share:	Prize share: 1/4
rational:	The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 was divided, one half awarded to Rainer Weiss, the other half jointly to Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves."
laureate facts:	Facts
laureate lecture:	Lecture
given name:	Rainer
family name:	Weiss
occupation:	physicist
occupation:	university teacher
field of work:	physics
work location:	Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 02139-4307, United States of America
description:	Rainer Weiss is an American physicist, known for his contributions in gravitational physics and astrophysics. He is a professor of physics emeritus at MIT. He is best known for inventing the laser interferometric technique which is the basic operation of LIGO. Rainer Weiss was Chair of the COBE Science Working Group.
image copyright:	© Nobel Media AB. Photo: A.Mahmoud
image citation:	The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2017/summary/>
date birth:	1932
usual name:	Rainer Weiss