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The Associated Press
Posted: Oct 03, 2017 6:02 AM ET
Last Updated: Oct 03, 2017 6:05 AM ET
The 2017 Nobel Physics Prize has been awarded to three scientists for discoveries in gravitational waves.
The prestigious prize went to Barry C. Barish, Kip S. Thorne and Rainer Weiss.
BREAKING NEWS The 2017 #NobelPrize in Physics is awarded to Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne @LIGO. pic.twitter.com/za1GNsAfnE
The 2017 prize being announced Tuesday by Sweden’s Royal Academy of Sciences comes with a roughly $1.3 million Cdn prize. For the past 25 years, the prize has been shared among multiple winners.
The 2016 prize went to three British-born researchers who applied the mathematical discipline of topology to help understand the workings of exotic matter such as superconductors and superfluids. In 2014, a Japanese and a Canadian shared the physics prize for studies that proved that the elementary particles called neutrinos have mass.
This year’s Nobel medicine prize went Monday to three Americans studying circadian rhythms — better known as body clocks: Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young.
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