# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-weber-q1708214
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:21:37.576Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-weber-q1708214"
name: "Joseph Weber"
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description: "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, known as Weber bars."
tagline: "American physicist (1919–2000)"
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birthDate: "1919-05-17"
deathDate: "2000-09-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump