Nobel Prize in Physics in 2017
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One half went to Rainer Weiss, and one quarter each to Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne, for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and observation of gravitational waves.[ref]
Press release: The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 by Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Official 3 October 2017 award decision: Weiss one half, remaining half jointly to Barish and Thorne; their individual official facts records explicitly give one quarter each.
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