Advanced LIGO Dedication
Reitze marks the formal dedication of Advanced LIGO after a major redesign that greatly improves detector sensitivity and expands the volume of the universe accessible to gravitational-wave searches.
Historical biography archive · Updated 2026-11-03
David Reitze Biography and Timeline
Follow David Reitze through 3 dated historical records for United States of America.
David Reitze, historical timeline
A chronological timeline drawn from matching World History Database records.
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2015–2016Years on this page
2015
GW151226 Detection
Advanced LIGO records GW151226 from two lower-mass black holes, providing a second robust direct gravitational-wave detection and showing that the first observation was not an isolated event.
2016
Gravitational Waves
Reitze announces the first direct detection of gravitational waves by the LIGO collaboration
Records, sources and methodology
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