Professor Emeritus Rainer Weiss, influential physicist who forged new paths to understanding the universe, dies at 92 » MIT PhysicsBy adminAugust 29, 20254 The longtime MIT professor shared a Nobel Prize for his role in developing the LIGO observatory and detecting gravitational waves.…
Physicist Paul Richards, a pioneer in studies of the cosmic microwave background, dies at 90By adminAugust 8, 20252 Paul L. Richards, an experimental physicist who built some of the first highly sensitive detectors to probe the faint radiation…
Pioneering theoretical physicist Mary K. Gaillard has died at 86By adminJuly 15, 20250 Mary K. Gaillard, a theoretical physicist whose calculations of the properties of new elementary particles helped validate the Standard Model…
