Nobel Prize for LIGO
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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Historical records for United States of America in 2017
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October
Nobel Prize for LIGO
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.
Nobel Prize for LIGO
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.
Nobel Prize for LIGO
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.
Nobel Prize
Barish receives the Nobel Prize for leadership and decisive contributions to LIGO
Nobel Prize
Thorne receives the Nobel Prize for decisive contributions to LIGO and gravitational wave observation
Nobel Prize
Weiss receives the Nobel Prize for decisive contributions to LIGO and gravitational wave observation
November
Voyager 1 Backup Thrusters Reactivated
Engineers successfully fire Voyager 1 trajectory-correction thrusters for the first time in thirty-seven years.
December
Record-Distance KBO Imaging
New Horizons photographs Kuiper Belt objects 2012 HZ84 and 2012 HE85 from farther from Earth than any previous spacecraft image location.
Jerusalem Recognition
Recognises Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
The Act reduces the corporate tax rate and changes individual and business taxation.
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Academy Award
Wins the Academy Award for Best Director for La La Land.
Academy Award Adapted Screenplay
Shares the Academy Award for Adapted Screenplay for Moonlight with Tarell Alvin McCraney.
Academy Award Best Picture
Shares the Academy Award for Best Picture as a producer of Moonlight.
Arrokoth Occultation Campaign
Buie helps lead stellar-occultation observations that constrain the size and shape of 2014 MU69 before the New Horizons flyby.
DES Year One Cosmology
Frieman's Dark Energy Survey collaboration releases first-year multi-probe cosmology results that test matter clustering and the standard dark-energy model with unprecedented survey data.
Detroit
Directs Detroit, a historical drama set during the 1967 Detroit uprising.
Discovery of KELT-9 b
Leads discovery of ultra-hot giant exoplanet KELT-9 b.
Discovery of LHS 1140 b
Leads discovery of rocky temperate super-Earth LHS 1140 b.
Get Out
Makes his feature directing debut with Get Out, blending horror with social satire.
Harvey Weinstein Investigation Published
The Times published investigative reporting on allegations against Harvey Weinstein, helping catalyse a global reckoning with sexual abuse.
Isle of Wight 1970 Release
Issues archival footage from the Isle of Wight performance.
Lady Bird
Makes her solo feature directing debut with Lady Bird, a coming-of-age story set in Sacramento.
Molly's Game
Stars as poker entrepreneur Molly Bloom in Aaron Sorkin's directing debut Molly's Game.
Nobel Prize
Shares the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm.
Nobel Prize
Shares the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm.
Nobel Prize
Shares the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm.
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri
Stars as Mildred Hayes in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.
Wonder Wheel Film
In 2017, Woody Allen made Wonder Wheel, a drama about a Coney Island waitress whose life becomes entangled in a romance.
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