Joe Weber | |
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 Weber depicted in US Naval Academy uniform in 1940. | |
| Born | May 17, 1919 Paterson, New Jersey, USA |
| Died | September 30, 2000 (aged 81) |
| Resting place | United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland[3] |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | United States Naval Academy Naval Postgraduate School The Catholic University of America |
| Known for | Weber bars Quantum electronics Gravitational wave detection Maser Laser |
| Spouses | Anita Straus (1942 - 1971; her death) Virginia Trimble (1972 - 2000; his death) |
| Awards | 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) Fellow of the American Physical Society[1] Fulbright Scholarship (1963) Sigma Xi (1970) Boris Pregel Prize of the New York Academy of Sciences (1973) Maryland engineering hall of fame (1988) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | University of Maryland College Park Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton US Navy Bureau of Ships |
| Thesis | Microwave Technique in Chemical Kinetics[2] (1951) |
| Doctoral advisor | Keith J. Laidler |
| Doctoral students | Robert L. Forward |
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).
- ^ "APS Fellow Archive". American Physical Society. Retrieved 2019-04-30.
- ^ Washington Research Library Consortium Catalog. Retrieved on 2016-11-28.
- ^ USNA Cemetery Documentation Project: Cemetery Inventory Form. Retrieved on 2016-04-29.