The 2017 Willis E. Lamb Award For pioneering the laser gravitational wave detector.

Awarded January 11, 2017, at the 47th Winter Colloquium on the Physics of Quantum Electronics.

Rainer Weiss, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

For pioneering the laser gravitational wave detector.

Rainer Weiss, Born Sept 29, 1932 Berlin, Germany, MIT BS 1955, PhD 1962, Tufts University Physics faculty 1960-1962, Post doc Princeton 1962-1964, MIT Physics faculty 1964-2001, emeritus 2001---, Adjunct Professor of Physics LSU 2001--- . Primary areas of research: Atomic clocks, Cosmic background radiation measurements, Gravitational wave detection.

Bio provided by Rainer Weiss, 2020.