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Long-Baseline Detector Study

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

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1980

Rainer Weiss1980

Cambridge · Science / Physics

Weiss leads a technical and cost study for a several-kilometre gravitational-wave interferometer, showing that a long-baseline observatory is technically feasible.

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Rainer Weiss

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