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MIT and Caltech split the physics Nobel this year.
3 Americans who discovered gravitational waves win Nobel Prize in physics
Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne are members of the LIGO-Virgo detector collaboration. The Nobel committee representative said “This year’s prize is about a discovery that shook the world.”
“This year’s prize is about a discovery that shook the world,” said the Nobel committee representative Göran K. Hansson in Stockholm on Tuesday.
Albert Einstein predicted in his 1915 General Theory of Relativity that distortions in gravity would travel through space-time like a shock wave. It took nearly a century to confirm that these distortions exist, a feat that required huge contraptions in two locations to detect an ultra-tiny ripple in the fabric of space.
One half of the prize went to Weiss, born in Berlin and now a U.S. citizen, who is a physics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The other half was split by Barish, a Nebraska native, and Thorne, who was born in Utah. Both work at the California Institute of Technology. . . . .
3 Americans who discovered gravitational waves win Nobel Prize in physics
Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne are members of the LIGO-Virgo detector collaboration. The Nobel committee representative said “This year’s prize is about a discovery that shook the world.”
- By Ben Guarino
- 58 minutes ago
“This year’s prize is about a discovery that shook the world,” said the Nobel committee representative Göran K. Hansson in Stockholm on Tuesday.
Albert Einstein predicted in his 1915 General Theory of Relativity that distortions in gravity would travel through space-time like a shock wave. It took nearly a century to confirm that these distortions exist, a feat that required huge contraptions in two locations to detect an ultra-tiny ripple in the fabric of space.
One half of the prize went to Weiss, born in Berlin and now a U.S. citizen, who is a physics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The other half was split by Barish, a Nebraska native, and Thorne, who was born in Utah. Both work at the California Institute of Technology. . . . .