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RAINER WEISS, Professor of Physics Emeritus
Research Interests
Writing this at 73 and having shed the august responsibilities
of a full fledged faculty, it is natural to be retrospective rather than to
look at prospects.
Currently working on the LIGO project, a joint Caltech and MIT
effort, to observe gravitational waves and use them to study gravitation
and astrophysics. My role now is to be the equivalent of a grad student.
Very much enjoy this. Over the years have worked on cosmological
studies with Robert Dicke and David Wilkinson at Princeton. Began physics in atomic beams
with John King and Jerrold Zacharias at MIT. If you are really interested, you can
read the standard stuff here [PDF].
Biographical Sketch
See above.
Selected Publications
Started in physics with the precept that only very important and finished
work should be published. As a consequence, didn't publish much and got hell
for it. If you are curious how things became compromised, take a look at my publication list [PDF].
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