The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 is awarded to Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne.
7th October, 2017Category:
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 was divided, one half awarded to Rainer Weiss, the other half jointly to Barry C. Barish and Kip S. It is awarded for discovering "decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves".Thorne Rainer Weiss, 85, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Kip Thorne 77, and Barry Barish, 81, both of the California Institute of Technology, were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for the discovery of ripples in space-time known as gravitational waves, which were predicted by Albert Einstein a century ago but had never been directly seen.
LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory, is the instrument that detected the gravitational waves, and of a sister organization, the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, of more than a thousand scientists who analyzed the data.
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