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      • He developed the first gravitational wave detectors (Weber bars) in the 1960s, and began publishing papers with evidence that he had detected these waves.
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  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Joseph_WeberJoseph Weber - Wikipedia

    Although his attempts to find gravitational waves with bar detectors are considered to have failed, Weber is widely regarded as the father of gravitational wave detection efforts, including LIGO, MiniGrail, and several HFGW research programs around the world.

  3. Feb 12, 2016 · Her husband, the late Joseph Weber, had been the first physicist to search for the gravitational waves that Albert Einstein originally predicted in 1916. In fact, Weber, who spent his career at the University of Maryland, College Park, claimed in 1969 to see them.

  4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Weber_barWeber bar - Wikipedia

    A Weber bar is a device designed to detect gravitational waves, first devised and constructed by physicist Joseph Weber at the University of Maryland. The device consisted of aluminium cylinders, 2 meters in length and 1 meter in diameter, antennae for detecting gravitational waves. [1]

  5. By the end of the 1970s it was generally thought that Weber had not actually detected gravitational waves. So why did Weber think he had? It seems to stem from the subtlety of...

  6. Dec 22, 2005 · Joseph Weber adjusts the instrumentation on one of his aluminum cylinders, with which he claimed to have detected spacetime ripples known as gravitational waves.

  7. Apr 25, 2016 · In 1969 Joe Weber announced that he had achieved an experimental feat widely believed to be impossible: He had detected evidence for gravitational waves. Imagine his pride, the pride to be the first, the gratification of discovery, the raw shameless pleasure of accomplishment.

  8. Oct 10, 2000 · In the late 1950s, Weber became intrigued by the relationship between gravitational theory and laboratory experiments. His book, General Relativity and Gravitational Radiation, was published in 1961, and his paper describing how to build a gravitational wave detector first appeared in 1969.

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