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Kilometre-Scale Interferometer Design

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

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1972

Rainer Weiss15 April 1972

Cambridge · Science / Physics

Weiss documents a kilometre-scale interferometric detector, identifies fundamental noise sources and describes methods capable in principle of reaching astrophysically useful gravitational-wave sensitivity.

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Rainer Weiss

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