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Virgo Construction

Italy · Science / Physics. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1997

Adalberto Giazotto1997

Cascina · Science / Physics

Construction of Virgo begins near Pisa, implementing the detector concept Giazotto and Brillet developed for sensitive interferometric measurements of gravitational waves.

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Adalberto Giazotto

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