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The Nobel Physics Prize 2017 has been awarded to three scientists for their discoveries in gravitational waves. The three are Rainer Weiss of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Barry Barish and Kip Thorne of the California Institute of Technology. The German-born Weiss was awarded half of the 9-million-kronor ($1.1 million) prize amount and Thorne and Barish will split the other half.
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-nobel-physics-prize-awarded-scientists.html
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The Nobel Physics Prize Has Been Awarded to 3 Scientists for Discoveries in Gravitational Waves
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(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday October 03 2017, @08:25PM
It was the same kind of interferometer but much smaller.
Someone told me that Dr. Thorne suppressed the ground vibration by putting the interferometer parts on cushions that had alternating lead breaks and nerfmobiles.
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