October 3, 2017
Rainer Weiss of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Barry Barish and Kip Thorne (pictured) of the California Institute of Technology won the 2017 prize for a combination of highly advanced theory and ingenious equipment design, Sweden's Royal Academy of Sciences announced. Photo courtesy Flickr/Konstantin Malanchev
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Einstein Proof: Nobel Winners Find Ripples in the Universe
Three U.S.-based scientists won the Nobel Physics Prize on Tuesday for detecting faint ripples flying through the universe—the gravitational waves predicted a century ago by Albert Einstein that provide a …
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