Nobel Laureate Rai Weiss Visits Ohio University

Professor Rainer "Rai" Weiss of MIT visited Ohio University on Oct 18, 2018, to share his knowledge and enthusiasm for the pursuit of science. He met with many groups, including our nuclear astrophysics graduate students and OHIO Trustees, and presented a public lecture about exploring the universe with gravitational waves.

Weiss along with Kip Thorne and Barry Barish, all a part of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, were awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics "for decisive contributioins to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves".