Rainer Weiss
Nobel Prize-winning American physicist
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| 2022 | Gave an interview to the Federal University of Pará in Brazil, discussing his life, career, childhood memories, and the future of gravitational waves astronomy. |
| 2020 | Elected as a Legacy Fellow of the American Astronomical Society, recognizing his significant contributions to astronomy. |
| 2018 | Received the American Astronomical Society's Joseph Weber Award for Astronomical Instrumentation for his invention of the interferometric gravitational-wave detector. |
| 2017 | Received multiple prestigious awards for gravitational waves detection, including the Gruber Prize in Cosmology, Shaw Prize, Kavli Prize in Astrophysics, Harvey Prize (with Kip Thorne and Ronald Drever), Smithsonian's American Ingenuity Award in Physical Science, Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics, and the Princess of Asturias Award. |
| 2017 | Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Kip Thorne and Barry Barish for groundbreaking work in gravitational wave detection. |
| 2016 | Received the Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for the detection of gravitational waves. |
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