Joe Weber

Joe Weber

Guggenheim Fellowship (1955, 1962)
National Research Council Fellowship (1955)
Scientific Achievement Award from the Washington Academy of Sciences (1958)
Babson Award of the Gravity Research Foundation (1959)
Fulbright Scholarship (1963)
Sigma Xi (1970)


Boris Pregel Prize of the New York Academy of Sciences (1973)
Maryland engineering hall of fame (1988)

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).

Read more about Joe Weber:  Early Education, Naval Career, Early Post-Naval Career; Development of The MASER, Work On Gravitational Wave Detection, Legacy, Personal Life

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