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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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"Maybe we can get together and show off to each other sometimes."
(Score: 3, Interesting) by turgid on Tuesday October 03 2017, @07:57PM (2 children)
I'm very surprised they didn't share the prize with the LISA Pathfinder people. Remember how the initial claim from LIGO that they'd detected gravity waves was retracted pending better data, meanwhile the LISA Pathfinder mission made a definite observation?
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 04 2017, @08:50PM (1 child)
What are you talking about? What definite observation?
(Score: 2) by turgid on Wednesday October 04 2017, @10:18PM
The one they made after the LIGO announcement that was initially retracted. The space aliens told me to tell you.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(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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(Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday October 03 2017, @09:10PM
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(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 03 2017, @10:45PM
Typical patriarchal bullshit. When will they start giving out Nobel Prizes on a more inclusive basis? Latinos, young Black women and millennial transexuals deserve Nobel Prizes too... you can't continue supressing them.