{"id":33573,"date":"2016-05-05T15:39:02","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T20:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/?p=33573"},"modified":"2016-05-09T20:09:12","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T01:09:12","slug":"uwm-physicists-share-in-special-breakthrough-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/uwm-physicists-share-in-special-breakthrough-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"UWM physicists share in Special Breakthrough Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UWM researchers are among those being honored for the detection of gravitational waves in space, a discovery announced earlier this year. The international group of more than 1,000 contributing scientists and engineers won the Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_33574\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33574\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-33574\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2016\/05\/UWM.LIGO_.research.group_b.jpg\" alt=\"The members of UWM's LIGO team, which contributed computing power to the search for gravitational waves. (UWM Photo\/Pete Amland)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33574\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The members of UWM&#8217;s LIGO team, which contributed computing power to the search for gravitational waves. (UWM Photo\/Pete Amland)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Founded by Sergey Brin and Anne Wojcicki, Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, Yuri and Julia Milner, and Jack Ma and Cathy Zhang, the prize recognizes an extraordinary scientific achievement.<\/p>\n<p>One-third of the $3 million award will be shared among the three founders of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) \u2013 Ronald W. P. Drever, Kip S. Thorne and Rainer Weiss.<\/p>\n<p>The remaining $2 million will be equally shared among the 1,012 contributors to the experiment, including 26 members of UWM&#8217;s Leonard E Parker Center for Gravitation, Cosmology and Astrophysics.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers include professors Patrick Brady and Jolien Creighton and associate professors Alan Wiseman and Xavier Siemens.<\/p>\n<p>Committees of previous laureates, such as Stephen Hawking, choose the winners from candidates nominated in a process that is online and open to the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UWM researchers are among those being honored for the detection of gravitational waves in space, a discovery announced earlier this year. The international group of more than 1,000 contributing scientists and engineers won the Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. 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