Publication at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics |
2018
Abstract
The Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences announced on October 3, 2017, that Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish and Kip Thorne received the Nobel Prize for Physics "for making critical contributions to the LIGO detector and observing gravitational waves." Since February 2016, when it was announced that LIGO interferometers successfully captured GW150914, many expected it. There was no doubt that the first direct observation of the gravitational waves is an event of paramount importance that deserves this most important award in physics.