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.NPR Weekend Edition: Billion Dollar Gamble, May 19, 2019. Retrieved 19 May, 2019 Isaacson's 1967 PhD dissertation established that the theoretical gravitational waves had features similar to other known types of waves.Gravitational Radiation in the Limit of High Frequency, PhD dissertation, University of Maryland, 1967. Retrieved May 19, 2019 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 ScienceNew APS Award Honors Richard Isaacson, University of Maryland Physics Department, March 28, 2018. Retrieved May 19, 2019
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