The Nobel Physics Prize 2017 has been awarded to three scientists for their discoveries in gravitational waves, one of them a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge.
The three are Rainer Weiss of the MIT and Barry Barish and Kip Thorne of the California Institute of Technology.
Weiss, who was born in Germany, was awarded half of the 9-million-kronor ($1.1 million) prize amount and Thorne and Barish will split the other half.
Weis received his PhD from MIT in 1962 and prior to teaching at MIT was a professor at Tufts University and Princeton.
The Nobel Physics Prize honors big discoveries involving materials often too small to be seen by the naked eye.
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.
Associated Press
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