Richard A. Isaacson
Richard Allen Isaacson (born October 6, 1941) is a retired American physicist who has been cited by 2017 Nobel Laureate
Rainer Weiss as indispensable to the
LIGO gravitational wave project. Isaacson's 1967 PhD dissertation established that the theoretical gravitational waves had features similar to other known types of waves. Isaacson went on to champion the LIGO project as the
NSF Program Director of Gravitational Physics for decades. Weiss and fellow Laureate
Kip Thorne have honored Isaacson by endowing the
American Physical Society's ''Richard A. Isaacson Award in Gravitational-Wave Science''
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