Rainer Weiss, professor emeritus at MIT, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves" Oct. 3. Mahi Shafiullah–The Tech Oct. 11, 2017 Facebook Twitter Reddit Print Rainer Weiss, professor emeritus at MIT, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves" Oct. 3. Mahi Shafiullah–The Tech