Historical place archive

LIGO Hanford Observatory in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at LIGO Hanford Observatory in United States of America. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

1 records1 event labels1 people2015–2015

Historical events in LIGO Hanford Observatory

2015

14 September 2015
Gravitational Waves
Rainer Weiss · Physics

Weiss sees the interferometer concept vindicated when LIGO detects gravitational waves from merging black holes

Provenance

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These entries are generated from stored World History Database records whose country and place fields match United States of America and LIGO Hanford Observatory. Names, dates, event labels and descriptions are reviewed and normalised as the database develops. Historical place names may not match modern administrative boundaries.

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