Barry Barish3 October 2017
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.
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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.
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.
Thorne shares the Nobel Prize in Physics with Rainer Weiss and Barry Barish for decisive contributions to LIGO and the direct observation of gravitational waves.
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.
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