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Claimed Gravitational Radiation Detection

United States of America · Science / Physics. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1969

Joseph Weber16 June 1969

College Park · Science / Physics

Weber reports coincident excitations in separated resonant-bar detectors as evidence for gravitational radiation, a claim that stimulates extensive attempts at independent experimental verification.

Names involved

Joseph Weber

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