“This is a truly remarkable achievement,” said the Chairman of the Nobel Committee, Nils Mårtensson, about the findings discovered by this years’ Physics Laureates. Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne are awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics “for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves”. | Nobel Prize

JOIN US IN CONGRATULATING BARRY C. BARISH! Barry C. Barish has today been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 together with Rainer Weiss and Kip S. Thorne "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves”. Write your congratulations here! LIGO Scientific Collaboration California Institute of Technology - Caltech | Nobel Prize

The #Nobel Prize was awarded today to physicists Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish and Kip Thorne for their roles in the landmark detection of gravitational waves—ripples in the fabric of spacetime that Einstein predicted more than a century ago. “We’re all thrilled,” said Assoc. Prof. Daniel Holz, whose #UChicago team is part of the international LIGO collaboration that announced the discovery in 2016. Holz and his colleagues are developing ways of using the research to open new frontiers in astronomy