Premio Shaw · Astronomía
Premio Shaw 2016: Ganadores
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Kip S. Thorne, Rainer Weiss, Ronald Drever
For conceiving and designing the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), whose recent direct detection of gravitational waves opens a new window in astronomy, with the first remarkable discovery being the merger of a pair of stellar mass black holes.