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Joseph Weber (May 17, 1919 – September 30, 2000) was an American physicist. He gave the earliest public lecture on the principles behind the laser and the maser and developed the first gravitational wave detectors ( Weber bars ).
Apr 25, 2016 · He builds an ingenious machine, a resonant bar, a Weber bar, which vibrates in sympathy with a gravitational wave. A solid aluminum cylinder about 2 meters long, 1 meter in diameter, and in the range of 3,000 pounds, as guitar strings go, isn’t easy to pluck.
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.
Nov 23, 2022 · Joseph Weber (May 17, 1919 – September 30, 2000) was an American physicist. He gave the earliest public lecture on the principles behind the laser and the maser and developed the first gravitational wave detectors (Weber bars).
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 statistics.
Oct 10, 2000 · Joseph Weber, a prominent UC Irvine professor who spent much of his career chasing after the mysteries of physics and deep space, died Sept. 30 in a Pittsburgh hospital from complications from...
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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.
