Legacy
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. His notebooks contained ideas for laser interferometers; later such a detector was first constructed by his former student Bob Forward at Hughes Research Laboratories.
The Joseph Weber Award for Astronomical Instrumentation was named in his honor.
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