Nationality    United States of America
                            Institution    LIGO/VIRGO Collaboration, California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
                            Award          2017
                            Discipline     Physics
                            Co-recipients  Rainer  Weiss , Barry C. Barish
                            MotivationAwarded with Nobel Prize 2017 in Physics "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves."
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