Joseph Weber

Physicist, Academic

1919 – 2000

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Who was Joseph Weber?

Joseph Weber 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.

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Born
May 17, 1919
Paterson
Religion
  • Atheism
Ethnicity
  • Jewish people
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • PhD, The Catholic University of America
    Physics
    ( - 1951)
  • United States Naval Academy
  • Naval Postgraduate School
Employment
  • University of Maryland, College Park
Lived in
  • Maryland
  • Southern California
Died
Sep 30, 2000
Pittsburgh

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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