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LIGO NSF Proposal

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

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Chronological records

1989

Rainer Weiss1989

Pasadena · Science / Physics

Weiss, Drever, Thorne, Fred Raab and Vogt submit a major LIGO proposal to the National Science Foundation, setting out the design for two long-baseline observatories.

Names involved

Rainer Weiss

Provenance

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