The key achievement, imho:
> In the mid-1970s, Rainer Weiss had already analysed possible sources of background noise that would disturb measurements, and had also designed a detector, a laser-based interferometer, which would overcome this noise.
Over 40 years ago, Weiss figured out how to do it. And finally, within his lifetime, he got to see it happen and actually work.
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