What was the main topic of Rainer Weiss's Nobel Prize-winning research?
Discovery of gravitational waves
Development of quantum computing
Breakthrough in nuclear fusion
Discovery of the Higgs boson
Answer
Rainer Weiss won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2017 for his work on the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), which detected gravitational waves for the first time in 2015. Gravitational waves are ripples in spacetime that are produced by the acceleration of massive objects, such as black holes and neutron stars.
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