UChicago scientist congratulates LIGO Nobel Prize winners
Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne and Barry Barish won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics for their roles in the landmark detection of gravitational waves—ripples in the fabric of spacetime. Assoc. Prof. Daniel Holz leads a UChicago team that is part of the international LIGO collaboration, which announced the discovery in 2016.