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2017Nobel Prize in Physics awarded for gravitational wave detectionLIGO scientists honored for confirming Einstein's predictionRainer Weiss, Barry Barish, and Kip Thorne received the Nobel Prize in Physics for their roles in the LIGO detection of gravitational waves, confirming a century-old prediction of Einstein's general relativity. The 2015 detection opened a new field of gravitational-wave astronomy. It was hailed as one of the major scientific achievements of the decade.