On this day, six years ago – less than three months after the paper was published – the first direct detection of gravitational waves won the “Special Breakthrough Prize In Fundamental Physics”.
The prize, endowed with 3 million US dollars, was shared between the founders of @LIGO (Ronald W. P. Drever, Kip S. Thorne and Rainer Weiss) and the 1012 contributors to the discovery. More than 100 of them were at that time at @mpi_grav in Potsdam and Hanover, Germany, and at @unihannover.
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