Nobel Prize in physics, 2017
firstname: Rainer
surname: Weiss
motivation: "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves"
firstname: Barry C.
surname: Barish
motivation: "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves"
firstname: Kip S.
surname: Thorne
motivation: "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves"