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News Release 17-097
NSF-funded LIGO pioneers named 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics laureates
NSF congratulates physicists Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne and Barry Barish
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The discovery was made using the sensitive instruments of LIGO, in which NSF invested $1.1 billion.
Credit: Nobel Media. III. N. Elmehed
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