“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

7.5K views · 942 reactions | 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 | Facebook