Location:
WASHINGTON, DC, UNITED STATES
Post Date:
Oct 3, 2017 3:55 PM
TAG ID:
upiphotostwo556095
(RM)
Credit:
CALTECH/UPI/Newscom
Format:
3500 x 2402 Black & White JPEG
Photographer:
CALTECH
Keywords:
News, Science, Physics, Nobel Prize, Gravitational Waves, Space,
Release Status:
No Model Release, No Property Release
Caption:
Kip Thorne, Ron Drever and Robbie Vogt, the first director of LIGO, in a photo taken in 1990. The 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded on October 3, 2017, to three of the founders of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO): Caltech's Kip S. Thorne and Barry C. Barish, and MIT's Rainer Weiss. On September 14, 2015, LIGO made the first-ever direct detection of gravitational waves, or ripples in the fabric of space and time, which had been predicted by Albert Einstein 100 years earlier. Photo by Caltech/UPI