3 Scientists Win Nobel Prize In Physics For Work In Detecting Gravitational Waves | HuffPost

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> 3 Scientists Win Nobel Prize In Physics For Work In Detecting Gravitational Waves
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> Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne will share the prize.
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> STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Scientists Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish and Kip Thorne won the 2017 Nobel Prize for Physics for 
> decisive contributions in the observation of gravitational waves, the award-giving body said on Tuesday.
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> Ripples in the fabric of space-time first predicted a century ago by Albert Einstein, gravitational waves sparked a 
> revolution in astrophysics when their first detection was announced early last year.
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> BREAKING NEWS The 2017 #NobelPrize in Physics is awarded to Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne @LIGO.
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> — The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) 5:53 AM - Oct 3, 2017
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> The teams involved in the discovery quickly emerged as favorites for Tuesday’s prize.
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> “This is something completely new and different, opening up unseen worlds,” the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 
> said in a statement announcing the winners of the 9 million Swedish crown ($1.1 million) award.
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> “A wealth of discoveries awaits those who succeed in capturing the waves and interpreting their message.”
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> Triggered when super-dense black holes merge, the waves were detected using laser beams at the Laser Interferometer 
> Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO).
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> “The signal was extremely weak when it reached Earth, but is already promising a revolution in astrophysics,” the 
> Academy said.
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> LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) a collaborative project with over 1,000 researchers from 
> more than 20 countries.
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> — The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) 5:54 AM - Oct 3, 2017 · Stockholm, Sweden
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> Physics is the second of this year’s crop of Nobel Prizes and comes after Americans Jeffrey Hall, Michael Rosbash and 
> Michael Young were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine on Monday.
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> The prizes for achievements in science, literature and peace were first awarded in 1901 in accordance with the will 
> of Swedish business tycoon Alfred Nobel, who bequeathed much of the fortune he generated from his discovery of 
> dynamite.
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> Among the science prizes, physics has often taken center stage with laureates including scientific superstars such as 
> Einstein, Niels Bohr and Marie Curie, one of only two women to win a Nobel Prize for Physics.
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> Weiss won half the prize with Barish and Thorne sharing the other half.


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