The 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne and Barry Barish for their role in the discovery of gravitational waves, a breakthrough that helped confirm a prediction in Einstein’s theory of relativity. The discovery was made possible by scientists around the globe working together in the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. UWM’s team, led by Patrick Brady, Jolien Creighton, Xavier Siemens and Alan Wiseman, played key roles in finding, processing and confirming the gravitational wave information from a mountain of data.
