LIGO Laboratory mourns the passing of Prof. Rainer Weiss of MIT, one of the founders of LIGO

LIGO is profoundly saddened to share news of the loss of our long-time friend, colleague, and champion, Dr. Rainer Weiss, who passed away on August 25th, a few weeks before his 93rd birthday. Weiss's home institution, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has written a wonderful article about Rai, which we link to, below:

Professor Emeritus Rainer Weiss, influential physicist who forged new paths to understanding the universe, dies at 92

The LIGO Lab community will greatly miss our friend and colleague, whose immeasurable impact on gravitational wave astronomy and dozens of students and scientists around the world will be felt for generations to come.