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Nobel Prize for LIGO

United States of America · Science / Physics. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

2017

Barry Barish3 October 2017

Stockholm · Science / Physics

Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves from sources including merging black holes.

Kip Stephen Thorne3 October 2017

Stockholm · Science / Physics

Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for decisive contributions to LIGO and gravitational-wave astronomy, inaugurated by the detection of a binary black hole merger.

Rainer Weiss3 October 2017

Stockholm · Science / Physics

Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for decisive contributions to LIGO and the observation of gravitational waves, first detected from a binary black hole merger.

Names involved

Barry BarishKip Stephen ThorneRainer Weiss

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