Tag: LIGO

On Octo­ber 3, this year’s Nobel Prize in physics was awarded jointly to physi­cists Rainer Weiss, emer­i­tus pro­fes­sor at MIT, Kip S. Thorne and Barry C. Bar­ish, both emer­i­tus pro­fes­sors at Cal­tech 
"for deci­sive con­tri­bu­tions to the LIGO detec­tor and the obser­va­tion of grav­i­ta­tional waves," as the Nobel Prize Com­mit­tee put it.
Con­tinue read­ing "Nobel Prize goes to Grav­i­ta­tional Waves"