Richard A. Isaacson

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'''Richard A. Isaacson''' is a retired American physicist who has been cited by 2017 Nobel Laureate [[Rainer Weiss]] as indispensible to the [[LIGO]] gravitational wave project.<ref>[[NPR Weekend Edition]]: [https://n.pr/30x1mXp Billion Dollar Gamble], May 19, 2019. Retrieved 19 May, 2019</ref> Isaacson's 1967 PhD dissertation established that the theoretical gravitational waves had feaatures similar to other known types of waves.<ref>[http://bit.ly/2HGu3Zj Gravitational Radiation in the Limit of High Frequency], PhD dissertation, [[University of Maryland]], 1967. Retrieved May 19, 2019</ref> Isaacson went on to champion the LIGO project as the [[National Science Foundation|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''<ref>[http://bit.ly/2VSdLqf New APS Award Honors Richard Isaacson], University of Maryland Physics Department, March 28, 2018. Retrieved May 19, 2019</ref><ref>[http://bit.ly/2HzSAiQ APS Issacson Award] Retrieved May 19, 2019</ref>

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