Uploaded October 2017 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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On Monday, October 3rd, three people won the Nobel Prize for observing gravitational waves. But more than 1,000 scientists contributed to this discovery. These are the unsung heroes of LIGO.

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Producer/Video by:
Jason Lederman


Research:
Cici Zhang
Mark D. Kaufman


Media Used (CC BY-SA 3.0)
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kip_Thorne_at_Caltech.jpg

Media Used (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)
http://news.mit.edu/2016/rainer-weiss-ligo-origins-0211

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